Hard to Argue with Child-like Logic....

People were also bringing babies to Jesus to have him touch them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." - Luke 18:15-17

On few occasions, I am reminded why I chose to do what I do. Most of you know the struggles I went through to make the leap to teaching, and most of you know the extreme measures God used to get me here because I was fighting His Will for my life - out of nothing but pure fear of change and unknowns.

Anyway, after a long prayer time this morning asking for a renewed spirit during a difficult time at my campus, I showed up a few minutes late and frustrated with myself for not being better prepared....blah, blah, blah, the usual. I knew my science material very well so I wasn't overly concerned, but I still like to feel over prepared (not that that EVER happens). Consider it a flaw in my OCD personality.

Either way, today's science lesson was the conclusion of our lab on natural resources which fed into determining which resources are renewable and which are nonrenewable. After finishing our lab, I started one of the programs I use called EduSmart which is an interactive teacher's aide program (would be great for a SmartBoard if we had them.) It starts off showing 5 different types of renewable resources: oxygen, soil, fresh water, animals, and plants. (Our definition of a renewable resources is any natural resource that the earth can make more of almost as fast as it can be used up.) Per our discussions, I start asking students to think of things that could be made of animals and plants or something that needs oxygen, soil and water, and where the oxygen comes from, etc.

In my morning class, very unexpectedly, one of my "trouble" students raises his hand and says that he thing people are made of a natural resource. I assumed his logic was based on the fact that we eat plants and animals so we must be made of them. I fully expected to have to correct that by saying our bodies use those things to get energy and nutrients which we'll talk about in the 5th six weeks. But his answer truly caught me off guard.

Intrigued, I asked why he though people were made of natural resources. His response was this, "Well, God made people out of soil, which is dirt, and soil is a natural resource. So we have to be made from a natural resource."

Someone tell me how to argue with that!?!? I could do little to argue. I said, "Well, I guess we are made of at least one natural resource then aren't we. It's a good thing God made the soil for us then isn't it?" The whole class agreed, and we continued our lesson.

But it hit me hard. The child-like faith Jesus mentions in Luke and Mark was right there. So simplistic in it's design is the faith of a child. It's still very pure without all of the mess we bring into our minds as adults, twisting and turning faith till it fits our own version of "logic". We manipulate faith if we aren't capable. But as children, their minds can't do that yet. They simply relate to the beauty of what they know.

How I needed that small reminder of what it is to have pure faith! In a time of transition, where so much rides of my faith in Him and His plan for my life, I can only hope to survive by living the on un"adult"erated faith like that of a child!