silly and playful?

Friday, March 2, 2018 (6:56 a.m.)

I missed it. Several hours ago I planned to announce “6:54 3/2”. And then I missed it. By a minute. Thank You God that I get to be silly and playful with You.

Silly and playful? Is that an appropriate approach to come before You? Hmmm… maybe not.

Guide and direct my thinking here Father. I love You. I want to worship and adore You. I think of having a childlike faith (Matthew 18:3) and I come back to “silly and playful”. Those words don’t often describe me. "Serious and rule-oriented” are much more like it.

Then I read Malachi 1:10 in The Message, “Why doesn’t one of you just shut the Temple doors and lock them? Then none of you can get in and play at religion with this silly, empty-headed worship. I am not pleased. The God-of-the-Angel-Armies is not pleased. And I don’t want any more of this so-called worship!” Ummm. Do I border on sacrilege?

Please Father, I long that any silly, playfulness on my part would be seen by You as childlike; not childish.

Quoting a South Bay Calvary Chapel blog ‘be-like-a-child’, “God seeks a childlike submissiveness and meekness, a gleeful childlike heart… and a childlike faith. Faith builds character, and the process starts when you are a child. Without faith, we cannot please God (Hebrews 11:6)… Childlike faith, along with childlike love, are an open road to God’s heart.”

Dearest, Holy God, I come before You this morning asking, seeking, knocking (Matthew7:7) that You would guide and direct me in worshiping You in ways that You will be pleased. Grow my relationship with You exactly as You wish it to be.

I love You. I long to serve You. Perhaps somewhere in between ‘serious and rule-oriented’ and ‘silly and playful’? Freed to be precisely all You want me to be. Make it so Dearest God. Make it so. Thank You. I love You. Amen.

(340 words ~ 10:02 a.m.)

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