A Question For Gramma
One of my favorite verses in the Bible, is Philippians 3:10. The first five words of this scripture is where I want to spend some time with you.
They are...That I may know you.
I was with my oldest granddaughter this past week and she asked me a question that brought such a deep joy to me.
She asked, Gramma, will you tell me some things about yourself, because I don't really know things about you?
I chuckled and said I'd love to tell you things about me and I shared with her something from my growing up years.
Here is a question for us as God's children. Do we come to Him in prayer and ask Him a question like this?
Father, will you tell me something about yourself today?
I know for so many years, when I prayed I may have had many things on my mind I wanted to share with God. Not until a few years ago, did I see that Phil. 3:10 starts with - That I may know Him! This was something new to me and I welcomed the mind shift.
Many people grow up in church settings, and may see the Bible and prayer as tasks to complete, instead of a Person to know.
My granddaughter has been around me for her entire life, but it's not until now, at the age of 10, that she's realizing, I'm a person to get to know.
She and I have had many, many days together that we’ve shared our lives together. I've loved on her, I've snuggled her, fed her, taken her places, I'm sure you're getting the point. I've been being known to her throughout her life by what I do with her, but it's now that she's seeing me as more than her Gramma.
As Christians, this is applicable for us, also. We get saved, we go to church, we're taught to pray, and taught many other things to do as Christians. There comes a time though, when we see beyond our parents and the church people and have a question for God himself.
I became a Christian when I was 5 years old, but I can remember a time at the age of 21 that I had a question in my mind for God. I wanted to know if He really existed. I remember talking out loud to God in my car outside of a church building one day. There I sat, just having attended a funeral of a sweet woman our family knew, when suddenly I began to wonder if she had gone to heaven. I knew she loved Jesus and He was her Savior, but for some reason I was now having a question. This question was for God! So, I said out loud to Him, I know I prayed for Jesus to come into my heart when I was 5 years old and I believe that happened. I'm now having a doubt about it. What if I believe in You only because my mom and dad and the preacher told me to believe but You're not real. Wow! This was just like my granddaughter asking me her question that day. I had come to a point where I started to see God as a Person and I wanted to know Him, beyond salvation. The last thing I said to Him that day was I want to believe and I'm asking you to show me that you are really real.
Then, the clouds opened up and I heard God's voice....No, that's not what happened, ha, ha! But what did happen was through the next several years He began to show me how I couldn't make my life work apart from Him. I always looked to other people in my life to confirm my worth and I tried to use "things" to make me feel better. I also strived to make relationships work, and that didn't work either! Once those people, places and things came up empty, I finally came to the point with God that He was enough! and He loved me through it all as He showed me I was enough, too.
A book I read during this time of discovering God, as a Father, was “Captivating”, by Sherri Eldridge. A book that taught me how God spends each day, highlighting things with the sole purpose of captivating our hearts. He used this book to help me see how intentional He was and is toward me and that I get to know Him in a deeper way.
I hope this encourages you today, to ask God the Father a question about Himself. He delights to answer us!
Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”