| | The other day I was waiting at a hair & nails place for a haircut. The person before me was getting his infant baby daughter (probably not more than a year old) a haircut (more like a complete shave). As we all know...this can only lead to tears. Sure enough, as soon as the stylist got those automated clippers going the baby girl immediately started to cry and wail out of sheer fear. I doubt that the clippers actually caused her any pain; she was simply terrified. The thing is that while she was getting her hair shaved off, she was essentially sitting in her father's lap the entire time. As the girl continued to wail, the father kept trying to reassure his daughter that everything was going to be OK, and that the haircut was almost done (he was lying, of course, as there was still quite a ways to go).
Usually I try to tune out these type of events as it's sort of grating to listen to a baby girl cry continuously for really no apparent reason. This time was a bit different as I began to ponder about how this is a reflection of how our Christian walk (including mine) is a reflection of this very incident. How often do we face what we think may be dangerous but really isn't, but we are still so completely terrified with fear. Yet there is God telling us that everything will be OK (He, however, won't lie to us and tell us that our "haircut" is almost done when it isn't). Yet in all our crying and wailing we seem to drown out His voice so we can't hear Him and continue to be terrified.
It's amazing how debilitating and foolish our own human fears can be sometimes. Our fears either cause us to do some really stupid things and/or keep us from experiencing the true joy of the Father. Really, how big is our God? How big is our Daddy's lap? I hope that I can really live out the rest of my life with the knowledge that God is bigger than my storms, bigger than my problems, bigger than my fears, bigger than my enemies, and just bigger than anything and everything that I will ever come up against. He is the One who will help me overcome.
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