Barriers

by billy Williams

Psalm 8:1,2(MSG) 1 God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name. 2 Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.

My mother always told me that when a baby is cooing and making the noises that babies do, they were talking to God and here it is in scripture. There is something so innocent and yet so unfathomably large when it comes to the faith of a child. When and why do we lose it? At what point do we begin to believe our own criterion of truth and lose the innocent joy of knowing our Creator without prejudice?

To really know God as “Brilliant Lord” and for His name to be a household name, spoken with an innocent and truly unscathed heart like that of a child, should be my daily goal -- to set aside what I think I should say and let my heart and mind embrace who God, as I knew Him at birth, really is.

Heavenly Father, remove the barriers that time and life have built between us. Grant me the great freedom of conversing with You with the intimacy of a child. Allow my heart’s song to rise above the talk of Your enemies and silence the voices of those who would count You as untrue.