Reminiscing on my Childhood

Reminiscing on My Childhood

 

Today I started reading Jeremiah.  I found it very fitting because my favorite verse is in the book of Jeremiah and I knew that there could be some more favorites in it.   I don’t know why, but I started in the second chapter, but God revealed some things to me in reading it.  First of all, Jeremiah is a prophet, which means that God is speaking directly through him.  No, not like a crazy séance in which dead people are speaking through a human, but our Creator, God is telling Jeremiah what to say to the people of Israel.  And right now, WE ARE ISRAEL, people!  We have strayed away from our God, gone into exile and are pushing everything we know about how great He is away from us.  So, we are ISRAEL.  Got it?  Good. 

Jeremiah 2:1-2 (CEV)

“The LORD told me to go to Jerusalem and tell everyone that He had said:

                “When you were my young bride, you loved Me and followed Me through the barren desert.”

Can I just say that, the word of the Lord came to me and He said that this is more real to us then we know?  When we were younger in years, like little children, we loved on our parents.  We were so inspired by them.  They taught us everything we know: how to walk, how to talk, the right things to do and what not to do.  They showed us the way and we earnestly followed them.  But as we grew, we grew further and further away from them.  It starts really young too, like three years old… we want to be independent from them and “do it all by our self!”  Because that means that we are a “big kid” and “grown up”.  Trust me; I am having some major issues with this right now with my little one, who is growing up so fast.  They grow up and try to do it on their own, without our help.  Just like we, as adults do, to our Creator. 

Jeremiah 2:3

“You belonged to me alone, like the first part of the harvest, and I severely punished those who mistreated you.”

In these first verses of chapter 2, it is God reminiscing back to when we were “young children” in our faith.  We followed Him, even through the hard times because He was our “Daddy”.  We knew, without a doubt that He was going to care for us.  We trusted Him and every word He said.  What happened to us?  Why did we grow up and away from our Daddy and try to do life our own way? 

We are doing the same thing Israel did in the Bible.  We are turning our back on God because we don’t get what we want.  Just like when a little child doesn’t get their way, they throw a fit and eventually that fit will turn into a complete abandonment from because we grow up and push the ONE who brought us to life, away.  We are stubborn children, but the One who loves us, will never leave us or forsake us.  It’s so amazing to me to see how God feels through being a parent.  Being a parent is hard and there will be moments of rejection from my child that I am not looking forward to, but I know that God created a parent and child relationship to reflect the same relationship we have with Him.  As we grow in life and faith, we experience God in every area of our lives and that is worth living for.  It’s time to turn back to our Daddy and see Him for what He done for us.  We need to think back into our “childhood” and be thankful for a God who has never abandoned us and never will.  Come back to your Daddy and love on Him the way you did when you were a child.  We’re never too old to be a “Child of Christ” again.