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Hold Me
by Steve Troxel (Steve's bio)
[Note: If you'd like to read more from Steve, be sure to visit God's Daily Word.]
When a young child wants to be held, they simply reach up and say: "Hold me Daddy!" As he looks down, no loving father evaluates the child to determine if they deserve to be held, or sends the child away to earn affection. A loving father picks up the child and holds them with no words even being required. When asked, a loving father will say moments like this are his greatest joy!
Matthew 18:3
"I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
Our Heavenly Father loves us very much. He wants us to come to Him with outstretched arms...He wants to pick us up and hold us tight. Moments like this are His greatest joy! And yet, we spend our days trying to make ourselves acceptable - trying to earn our Father's affection.
In the eye's of God, we all have the understanding and the abilities of a child. We pour our hearts into projects thinking they are vitally important to God's work. We try to please Him as we say, "Daddy, look what I made You!" But our best efforts are as grade school pencil holders and disfigured flower pots.
Our Father takes these gifts, places them on the shelf, smiles, and shakes His head wishing we would understand. There's much work that needs to be accomplished for the Kingdom of God, but none more important than loving and being loved by Daddy. "'The most important one,' answered Jesus, 'is this: Hear O Israel, the Lord your God is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart...'" (Mark 12:29-30).
Yes, we must clean our room, take out the trash, and treat others nice on the playground - but at the end of the day, we must all reach up with empty arms and say: I love You Daddy - hold me!
Copyright 2001, Steve Troxel. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
| About Steve Troxel: Steve Troxel is the President of God's Daily Word Ministries. Steve was trained as an Electrical Engineer and received his PhD in 1994. After working as a researcher in a laser laboratory for several years, Steve felt the call from God to leave his trained profession and enter into full-time ministry. His devotionals are now sent around the world via email as well as distributed in book format. More information about this ministry as will as a "sign-up" page can be found at: http://www.godsdailyword.org |