Yellow Blanket
Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.”
My daughter has a yellow blanket - a blanket that she absolutely loves! And everywhere she goes, so does her blanket. Now Trinity has had the blanket since she was a baby. And when she’s sad, when she’s tired - all she wants is her yellow blanket.
My daughter loves that blanket.
I don’t know if you ever had a blanket like that. Maybe you still do. What I do know is this: Life was much simpler as a kid. It’s as we grow older that life becomes more and more complicated. But why is that? Could it be that as we grow older we simply become less and less like a child?
One thing that I’ve learned from my daughter Trinity is the quality of dependence. Yes, that is correct - the quality of dependence. Not independence as we might think.
As I shared with you my daughter has a yellow blanket - a blanket she absolutely loves! And everywhere she goes, so does her blanket. You see, my daughter depends on her yellow blanket. She depends on it for comfort. She depends on it for security. And she depends on it for peace.
So why is it that dependence is something that most adults see as a weakness? Could it be that as adults we’ve become less and less childlike? As I humbly attempt to follow God’s lead in the planting of a new church, I long for the childlike faith Jesus speaks of - a faith that trusts in Him and Him alone!
My daughter has a yellow blanket - a blanket that she absolutely loves! And everywhere she goes, so does her blanket.
Lord, God, it is by grace that we are saved, through faith - a faith that trusts in You. As we follow where You lead, help us to be humble in ourselves and confident in You. Give us Your heart for those who don’t yet know you, that we might share Your love with them. Amen!
Today’s devotion was prepared by Pastor Dustin Lappe, an LCMS mission planter engaged in launching Cross of Christ Lutheran Church in Aurora, Co. Check out their website by clicking here.