Little By Little

Kids Under Construction was this morning. There were a few rough spots, but all in all, it went really well and I hope was well-received by the congregation. This piece of the story has been running through my head almost non-stop for a few days now, and I just wanted to share it with you. I hope you will be as encouraged by it as I have...

Meril: We’re the ones who make the choices and decisions about how we will live.

Voice (Sort of the Spirit-esque figure): And that’s the rub, isn’t it? For some reason, choices and decisions don’t seem to come easily to human beings. I wonder what makes it so difficult for them. Perhaps it’s that they’re so impatient – they’re not content with the answers they need for today. They want the whole plan at once ... the solutions to all of the whys and the whens and the what-ifs for tomorrow and the rest of their lives. Sound familiar, eh? Hey, did it ever occur to you that maybe human beings with all of their energy and potential and with their highly organized minds and keen intellects have a habit of making things much more complicated than they really are? Often they distrust the obvious, the ordinary solution; they look for signs and symbols and revelations with thunder and lightning accompaniment, even, and they seem to miss the simple solution altogether. It’s not HARD enough for them. …

Isn’t that just like human beings? They have the potential, the promise, the knowledge, the talent … even a plan! But they have so much trouble taking that first step: believing. Believing in who they are and doing what they already know to do, trusting that God will be with them. It must be that it’s just too simple for them. It’s not intellectual enough. …

One step at a time … trying to become what [God] always had in mind. Oh, they know there’ll be other steps ahead … and questions to be answered and problems to solve, fears conquered, a succession of joys and disappointments, both successes and failures to come with, and a lot of learning to do. But through the Spirit of God, who lives and works in each one, these Kids Under Construction have progressed one more small step in the amazing, incredible, ever-so-daily process of becoming what God wants them to be.

Little by Little

One step at a time,

I'm learning to trust

What you're making of me....