Current mood: relaxed
Category: Religion and Philosophy
I have been introduced to several christian/spiritual blogs on this website and was reminded of a blog I wrote last summer. I had closed the account where I wrote it, but I think I can reproduce it. I’ll try. I think it bears repeating.
My lil one has had her "Lambie" since she was two weeks old. It’s a little white lamb with a rattle inside.
I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve had to search for Lambie when she’s misplaced him/her. Recently she decided it was a her. Last summer she lost Lambie. We looked church, everywhere. High and low, left and right, the house, daycare, everywhere we’d been. I tried replacing Lambie with a larger Lamb someone had given us. No dice, it had no rattle and had black feet. She knew. She was only 2.5 but she knew that wasn’t HER Lambie. After three days of this I didn’t know what to do. I did a search online because, thankfully, I had read the tag on her rear end and remembered the brand. Toys R Us sells them. I was about to order another one when I received a phone call after church Wednesday night. It was my friend and church secretary. She had found Lambie. We had gone to eat after church and she brought Lambie by. Lambie was soaked to the skin after three straight days of rain, pretty dirty, and kind of smelly, but my lil one didn’t care. She lit up like a Christmas tree and hugged Lambie. She hugged her so tight she squeezed some of the water out of her. She knew THAT was her Lambie. It wasn’t a bigger, black footed version. That was HER Lambie.
We took Lambie home and gave her a bath (in the washing machine). One spin cycle and permenant press cycle later she was good as new, white as ever, and my daughter couldn’t have been happier. It didn’t matter to her where Lambie had been for four days. It didn’t matter that she’d been out in the rain and dirt of a parking lot. All that mattered was she was home and she still loved her.
God is like that. God doesn’t care about your past. God doesn’t care where you’ve been. He knows you’ve been in the rain. He knows you’ve been in the dirt. He wants you home with Him. AND more than that, He knows YOU. There’s no fooling God with a black footed, no rattled version of you. He knows his children and He loves each and every one.
I was looking for the scripture reference I had put with this original blog but the scripture for the day on Bible Gateway today is this:
"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."- 2 Corinthians 5:21
When we’re tired, soaked to the rattle, and dirty from being in our own parking lot for days, Jesus says this:
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Matthew 11:27-29 (in Context) Matthew 11 (Whole Chapter)
Praise God for His mercy and grace!
