Why I want to be more like my 2 year old

Mom! Mom! Mom! Wake! Wake! Wake Up Mom! Come! Come Mom!

The words I hear every single morning before the sun is even fully up. I open my eyes to see my sweet 2-year-old son shaking my arm. He is smiling with such joy, love, and excitement for the day ahead of us. He doesn’t know what the day will hold, he doesn’t carry the burdens and stresses of yesterday. He is thrilled to start another day with his mommy and brother, (and daddy before and after work). We literally can do the same thing at home for days in a row and he still wakes up with the same excitement. I want to be more like my two-year old.

I need to wake up refreshed by the new day ahead of me, without knowing what it hold’s but having the utter most joy and excitement for it. I need to start waking up with his attitude. If we come to God every morning with the same approach my toddler comes to me, what impact would that make on us? How would that effect our moods, our attitudes, and the direction of our day? Maybe, just maybe, we need to start acting more like our children. I’m not talking about tantrums, and learning how to potty train. I am solely speaking about the heart of a two-year old. What are my son’s hearts desires everyday? To play, help, love, laugh, serve, learn, and grow. I need to approach my life with the same heart. For we are Gods children, are we not? If we believe he is our heavenly father shouldn’t we approach God with the same attitude as we would our mommies and daddies as a child?

Think about it.

God! God! Jesus! Wake up! Wake up! Good morning Lord! Come! I welcome you to join me in my day! Thank you Lord for another glorious day! I do not know what it holds, but I know while your with me in every moment, it will be a good day.

I know even the smallest mundane things can be truly enjoyed if I am doing them along side of Jesus. I need to invite Jesus into my days, I need to be excited to have the opportunity to spend another day with my heavenly father, just as my son is so excited to spend another day with his mommy and daddy. It’s time to take the authority in Christ Jesus’ name that has been given to us, and rebuke the spirit of depression, oppression, fear, busyness, tiredness, condemnation, guilt, worry, unworthiness, and any spirit that is not from God. We need to recognize who God is. When we fix our eyes on Jesus, we don’t see our problems any longer, we just see Jesus. When we do that, it allows God to move in our lives while we are living our life with His peace, resting in our hope and confidence that He will care for us. Just as my son knows if he wakes up mommy, he will get a fresh diaper put on him, food on the table, a sippy cup of milk, and lots and lots of cuddles and kisses. We need to go back to the basics of understanding what it means to be a child of God. We are to come onto Jesus with a child’s heart. So I want to encourage you to wake up tomorrow relying on God, calling out to him with a thankful heart and repentance, and asking him for his help. Ask God for food to eat, milk to drink, and remember that we can not live on bread alone… open up the word of God and eat. Fuel yourself as you fuel your children every morning.

Make those changes and you WILL see changes in your days, you will experience his love, joy, and peace. As believers we should be bearing the fruit of the spirit, if we aren’t we need to re-examine ourselves and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to us what needs to change in our hearts and lives.