The Sun Is Going Into the Grass ! ? !
This evening as the sun was going down Aidan mentioned that it was getting dark. I asked him if he knew why and he just looked at me like it was a a dumb question. Kaydence however had the perfect explanation… “The sun is going into the grass!” I looked at her for a moment grinning at her simple observation about the sunset. Then I said … “That is exactly right! and so then it gets dark!” Kaydence and Aidan went on about their business, but I couldn’t help but think about our conversation… From Kaydences perspective she was perfectly happy with the explanation.. and in a way she was right enough… for her. One of these days she will be able to understand what the sun actually does.. but for now she is satisfied.
As christians, how often do we simply miss the point of what God is doing in a similar way? I think about some of the ways that we come up with our “doctrines” for what we observe as christians and how we are not happy until we make sure everyone around us beleives the same “truth”. How hard is it for us to accept that all God is trying to teach us is how to love each other!? For all the doctrine that you may be able to argue and prove, chances are…. all you are saying is something as silly as “The sun is going into the grass”
In Matthew 18: 4 Jesus tells us, “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;”
Sometimes leaders make being a follower of Jesus too hard with rules and regulations that Jesus did not mention. God is more interested what flows from our hearts. Aidan observed what God had set in motion without having to have an elegant reason for it happening and Kaydence with child humility accepted that God had set in motion the sinking of the sun into the grass. Both knew that the next day the sun would rise again. Church leaders sometimes make simple acceptance of Jesus sacrifice so complicated that people do not become followers because of the rules placed on them that have nothing to do with salvation.
If church leaders would do what Jesus said in Mark 10: 43-44 “…., but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant; and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be the slave of all.”
Leadership is does not come about by making rules but by serving. Children accept leadership like that just as they do the setting and rising of the sun.