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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.]
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When a young child wants to be held, they simply reach up their arms and say: "Hold me!" (or as my two year old says, "I hold you!"). Children may be hurt, scared, or tired; they may not even know why they want to be held, but they know that spending time in arms of love seems to make everything better.
And, as we look down, we rarely evaluate the child to determine if they deserve to be held, or send them away to earn our affection; rather, we simply pick up the child and hold them with no words even being required. In truth, moments like this bring some of our 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. In truth, moments like this bring His greatest joy! And yet, we spend most of our days avoiding our Father's loving arms. We seek other forms of comfort and work to make ourselves acceptable - work 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 heart into projects thinking they are vitally important to God's work; "Daddy, look what I made for You!" But our best efforts are as grade school pencil holders and disfigured flower pots.
Our Father takes these gifts, smiles and shakes His head, wishing we would understand. There's much work to do for the Kingdom of God, but none more important than loving and being loved by the One who has loved us since the beginning of time; "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength" (Mark 12:30).
Understandably, this is a difficult concept for many who have not grown up with the unconditional love and acceptance of an earthly father - but our Father in Heaven is like none we've ever known. He created us for a relationship of love and "gave His only begotten Son" (John 3:16 KJV) as a sacrifice on the cross so we could be restored to the relationship which sin stole away. Let there be no doubt of His love and His promise; "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" (Hebrews 13:5).
He longs for us to return! Yes, we must clean our room, take out the trash, and treat others nice on the playground - but at the end of the day, His greatest desire is that we reach up with empty arms and say: I love You Daddy - hold me!
Copyright 2002, 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 |
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