God...My Daughter..and Bulldozers!

So what do Bulldozers...My Daughter..and God have to do with each other?

Everything :)

Tonight as I was tucking in my overtired, sleepy, silly, 8 year old daughter Hailey...and as we read her little princess Bible....and talked and chatted about how it applies to us.  My daughter said "So kinda like construction workers..they build buildings and stuff to build up the earth so God doesn't have to come back and build it up again"...I said..Hmmm...not really what I was getting at.  LOL.. I was trying to explain how we need to live our lives in such a way that other people will see and KNOW that something is DIFFERENT in us.  They would be so moved by the way we live that they would just Have to ask us WHAT is different and that will lead them to God.

So I stuck with the Construction theme and this is what came out.

Construction vehicles are used to build things.  BUT they will not move or do anything unless there is a person in the seat moving the levers and knowing where and what to do.   Picture this...EVERYONE in the world is sitting in their own seat of their own Construction vehicle. 
And MANY of them are moving the lever this way (left hand back, right hand forward..lol) and they are MOVING...but ultimately they are just going in circles...nothing great or grand is being built.  And Sometimes they dont care..they just want to keep on going around and around...they are "comfortable" with that.  Some see that all they are doing is going around and around and they decided they will CHANGE directions (left hand forward..right hand back)..but all that happens is the circle is in a different direction.

There are others...that have God in the vehicle..and HE guides them to pull BOTH levers back and move forward..and he teaches them to used bigger and better vehicles..to do grand buildings...in his name.

And when the people going around in circles see this OTHER vehicle ..the same one they are driving...but its DOING something...and it's not going in circles?!? They will ASK the driver of that special vehicle...WHAT is DIFFERENT with you?!?  How do you know where to go..HOW did you LIFT that piece way up high and Build that grand structure?!?   THAT is when we have an opportunity to share God with others.  That is when they may turn to God and accept the gift of Jesus!

But what about the drivers who say..."we know God" and they still just drive around in circles.  They do not seek him.  They do not drive any differently from the ones who do not know God.  They don't understand why they keep going in circles.  There was that one day..one week..or maybe one year...of no circles!!  Things were really happening!  But now...circles again.   HOW did that happen.   It happened ONE decision at a time. 

Every single day we are faced with hundred of decisions, pull this lever, raise this load, dump that one, demolish this building, begin new construction, these are TOUGH decisions to make...Lean into God...pray! We can CHOOSE at any of these...to just do the simple thing...pull one lever back and push one forward..and go around in circles...it's "safe"...You will never pull the wrong lever, demolish the wrong building....BUT you will also never get to BUILD AMAZING things either.

Thank You God for giving me the wisdom to explain things to my daughter in way she will understand.  And I thank him that she is kind and compassionate.  I have the most amazing daughter.  Hailey I love you!