Let it flow...

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

Imagine a river flowing with a really strong current, imagine a little boy on a log of wood drifting down the river, a boy that does not know any better. In all likely probabilities, combinations and permutations, the little boy would be scared, frightened, but then that little child would in all likelihood hold on tightly to that log and let the river guide him to wherever it takes him to. Add 10, 15 or even 20 years to that child, give him the same scenario and you have a young man struggling with all his might and heart to get to shore before the river kills him.

The words "Let it flow", came to me last night just before I closed my eyes to sleep. And I pondered and wondered for a while, what it truly meant and then it hit me. The whole of this year, I have striven and struggled to set my life the way I thought it should be and it has been a battle, a battle I was slowly but surely losing. And I compared my life to what it was when I was a kid and I compared it with what is happening to me now. Things I would not have sought out for, not bothered myself about a couple of years ago are the things i go out of my way to find now. I am not talking about money, food or clothing. Not talking about jobs and the like. I am talking about answers to questions, reasons behind particular situations in life. As a child, i took each day as it came, end of the day meant I looked forward to the next day, a day passed was simply that, a day passed. Now I hold on to things from days gone by, worry about things in the days yet to come, I don't trust as I used to, I don't cast my cares and worries to God like I used to.

Three scenarios come to mind today from three different times;

- Thinking about Noah in the ark, him, his family and all the saved animals. Not knowing where the ark would land they stayed in the ark and God guided it, they let everything flow...

- Step in Moses as a baby, in a reed basket coated in tar, neither him, nor his mother, nor his sister, knew where that basket was going, God did, and what did all 3 people do? They just let it flow. All the way to the basket being picked up by Pharaoh's daughter and Moses destiny starting up.

- David was anointed king as a boy but it took him a long long time before he became king. Opportunities came about where he could have snatched his destiny, but he held it in, he didn't brag about it or start a revolution, he let it flow and God worked everything out.

The way I see it, we start out like Moses in our little reed basket, trusting, not fighting, just letting God guide us. But being human which is our biggest problem (if you ask me) we think we are grown and we build a both, take d steer and start doing things as we deem fit, in other words we start doing God's work for Him rather than letting him do His work and us doing His will.

Our problems begin most times, when we stop being content with what we have or what we are, the world teaches us to strive for worldly things, and that is what we grow up believing, that is what is taught in so many places. We hardly get teachings about striving for godly things a closer relationship with our Father.
What am I trying to say? It is okay to freak out, okay to be scared, where we run into problems is when we try to break the flow, or guide the river (absurd as it may sound I have tried it before).
Truth be told, as we go with our Father's flow, we get closer to Him, really really closer. A closer walk with him daily.
A walk, where we just let it flow, let God truly guide our path.