Faith like a child

I was thinking the other day as I walked around the complex where I live about child like faith or faith like a child. I have heard that phrase a good many times in my life but had never really been able to put a mental picture to it, I know I'm slow! Then the Lord brought the idea to mind that there is no greater time of year to understand child like faith. It is so simple that I am amazed I didn't see it sooner.

The best description of child like faith that I have personally ever seen is this--when you tell a little child that an over-sized elf in a red suit will ride around the entire world in one night on a sleigh filled with toys pulled by magical flying reindeer and if they have been good he will come down the chimney and fill their stockings...and they say "Really, I want Santa Clause to come to my house and bring me a toy!"

Most children buy into it 100% without a shred of doubt or hesitation! Why? Because someone who loves and cares for them told them that it was so. Almost everyone of us believed in Santa while we were growing up. And we only stopped believing because we came to understand that there was absolutely no proof or possibility that he could exist and do what it is said that he does. Yet, as an adult, when the Creator God who is all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving, who cares for every minute detail of our life and has proven himself over and over again, tells us something, we either refuse to believe him or we want proof.

What Abba Father, Papa God, our Heavenly Father wants more than almost anything is for us to trust him with the faith that we all too often reserve for fictional characters or other frail, imperfect human beings. Things and persons who will always let us down. But when we take that child like Santa faith and trust our Maker with it, our faith is rewarded, supported, and honored for no better reason than it pleases him when we put our faith in him and take him at his word.

Romans 14:23 ...and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
Hebrews 11.6 And without faith it is impossible to please God...