Arms of Love

My sister is a grandmother again, this time with her first granddaughter. She is spending a month with her daughter to help care for the growing family. She is in complete heaven. (Well, perhaps not complete...the two year old IS wearing her energy to a nub, but besides the exhaustion, she is in complete heaven.) New babies are so important, especially when the world is topsy turvy and perhaps not as perfect as one would hope. No one can help but feel optimism and delight when new adorable life opens her eyes and gazes with wonder at an earth brimming with color, and sounds, and smells, and kisses. It changes everyone's perspective. Sometimes babies can make the most jaded cynic pause and see the world with a different lens.

Jesus tells us that unless we approach the kingdom of God as "little children", we will not gain entrance. We are to look upon His Majesty with a sense of awesome wonder, incredulity at the miraculous beauty of it all. We are to enter with absolute faith into a universe of promise and hope. No heavy burdens of sin or dashed dreams shackle our joy. We are carried on the arms of love and forgiveness with the kiss of eternity. Oh Lord, how magnificent a plan to remind us to trust in your goodness with the sweet innocence of babies!

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Then he said, “I tell you the truth, you must change and become like little children. Otherwise, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3 NCV)

Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. (1 Peter 2:2, 3 NIV)

But I am calm and quiet, like a baby with its mother. I am at peace, like a baby with its mother. People of Israel, put your hope in the Lord now and forever. (Psalms 131:2, 3 NCV)


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