No Worries , Sleeping Like a Baby [Part 2]

If you were to be daringly honest enough to say I really don't have that much knowledge. I really don't have any stuff that gives me any real security and I have very little control did leave you with two choices.

You would just be lost and existential angst despair over I can control this and I'll know was that I am he would turn to God going to shearing the annual Britt said to hear Allen's message from an old church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in a series called 3, you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource available to you right now for your donation this month to shearing the as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us@shearingthe.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860. More on this later in the program now let's get started with today's teaching years Alan Wright.

We struggle and our relationships and we fret and we worry. We worry about how we've offended and we worry about how we've been offended and we brood over it and we think about it and we analyze it to death and toddlers don't do any of that years ago minutes to wear down the beach and then my brothers a small family. They come there nephew Jacob Bennett would great buddies's cousins and they, and they got little Anna Catherine, his is also to an MAC show that you thought that they like best friends and seen each other in a year and been like three days and Jake runs our hugs Bennett. Hugs, Jake and and and and Jake says I missed you Bennett ministries and I missed you too, and it is like is saying is just so heartwarming on the numbers they start playing on the beach and within minutes, Bennett has kicked some saltwater on Jake. Jake has taken Anna Catherine's toy Anna Catherine has shopped.

Bennett met lunch. Bennett has eaten Jake's grilled cheese Jake is taken the hose away from Anna Catherine Bennett takes the hose and with cold water douses Anna Catherine and her diaper. All of this in the matter of a day and that night we put them to better revise happy as could be. But there was an one day you had all that you've got, you got anger and malice and thievery and covetousness slander you got it all in one day, putting the matter happy as me get up the next. My friend Bob Phillips best buddies and we would be we would play together every single day live across the street and we go there be plan GI Joe together and he would do some riders on my gums. I know I'm playing with that guy.

Then I got across pyrolysis sit there about 10 minutes stewing over the phone ring was doing not much new go back over � arousing second over something forever morning talk to each other anymore brooding over and see little children don't do that.

They just don't worry I here's the irony little cans are so little that they don't have enough of the things that we count on for our security to even give those false things a try for somewhere went to the riots that the beach minutes, maybe two. In the backseat. Also night he goes Bennett too little. Why, what, what sweet is for Bennett to little too little is Same.

Bennett too little.

And finally I figured out later that cousins, not out of malice thing. The older cousins had informed him you're too little to ride the big drive you're relegated to the little train that goes around or the little caterpillar that just put surrounding around here. You're not big enough to get on some of the you know the crazy Masters so he just heard in two as a part of all this is like that's something I don't want to be. I don't want to be to Leno what I want to say you is that being to on one hand, it might feel frustrating but on the other hand, it's a toddlers ticket to heaven on earth.

The key is this humble yourself and become like a little child.

In other words, if you want to get rid of worry in your life in a sense, take a giant step back to something that is much simpler when you begin to admit how limited you are. In other words, this is the irony we think the way to worry less, is to get more of everything. But Jesus is saying the way to worry less is to admit how little you are like a toddler they don't know very much and they know it. This is one of the great secrets of their happiness. They know very little about anything that's happening. They don't know what's going to happen tomorrow is a beautiful thing you can take your two-year-old to the doctor and they don't know it until you start going and you say as you walk in and out were going to go see the nice doctor now shot you might and is over but no concept of dread.

In other words they know so little.

They have no choice but to be mindful of the moment that my then you have to accept your limits and just so well, I might as well live in this moment because I don't really know what's coming tomorrow. They don't have very much they don't have stuff. They had a few toys but even those it is given to the got no bank account they have no retirement plans have no prestigious job and they have no frame and children don't have control and they know it is probably the most important piece of it all.

Children little ones know this. They know someone else is in charge. They don't get to choose their own bedtime get to choose whether eating for their meals. They will get to choose whether living they don't get to choose whether to be doing next week there just a two-year-old and I don't have those choices and we think that is through control. There were going to feel secure, but is just the opposite. Think about this beloved which is like little toddlers.

We don't know much though.

I think the older and wiser I get, the more I know that I don't know the more you walk with God. The more you find out you know about God.

And the more that you learn in your particular field of study, the more you'll find out you don't know. I think there's a whole to whole level of na�vet� in which in some sophomoric type of illusion that we know more than we do.

We think we know a lot, and then if you get a little smart enough and I don't know anything smartest people on earth realized the knowledge of this universe is so vast right your listening, sharing the line will have more teaching in a moment from today's important series ever wish you could be a child again ever long for the simpler days when your biggest financial worry was counting the money in the shoebox eliminates the end ever long for the more carefree times when you wish to long summer days would never end. If you've ever long to be like a child again. Author Alan Wright has some good news. You can Jesus invitation to become like a little child means it's possible when you make a gift of sharing the like today will send you a special bundled gift that includes two audio messages that will help you banish worry that a copy of Alan Wright's book, childlike cards that will lead you into the freedom and wonder of childlike faith.

Most of all, when you make a gift of sharing the like today will help us broadcast the love of God to tens of thousands of people every day is only possible because of recent financial support. When you get to send you today special affect happiness in this tier as I think some sharing the right ministries, 877-544-4860 or come to my website sharing the right leg sharing the light teaching now continue you once again is Alan Wright. We worry far less if we just could admit we don't know much. Isaiah 55 verse eight says, my thoughts are not your thoughts are your ways my ways, the class a lot as a heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts are higher than your thought is very interesting. God comforted Joe in a way that it first seemed like he was just being cruel to Joe Job's soft word is much as any human being could possibly suffer and we know there's a whole other story going on for God to restore Joe.

Joe doesn't know all this from his limited perspective. Joe perseveres for a long long time until he starts questioning God after Job questions God and after Job starts bringing all this against you know the Lord then finally Job 38 one.

The Lord comes to him and the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge is like site comes into my presence and asked me questions as if they know something. Job gets quiet and God gives him a little speech he starts with where were you when I laid the foundation of their regular what you doing that time. Job well I didn't exist is our savings have you ever walked along the bottom of the ocean where the springs come up. The proofs provide all the waters of the ocean. In the words the healing for Joe and his doubt questions and confusion was to be reminded to understand too little don't know that much like little children, we don't have really anything that gives us any security at all, but we have stuff we got stuck we have materials and you can get a bunch of followers on Facebook or Instagram and you can you can get.

You get the approval of other people and get people talking good about you. You can you can get a big bank account you get, but not one bit of it gives you any real sense of security affects other people have the most off of all the ones that are most worried they start worrying about all of this kind of stuff and society itself.

Therefore, just like a fear factory. It's just producing people of fear the media. The commercial the social media all of it in one way or another is saying you don't have enough of this and that the way to feel more secure and worry less. Is that more of this and it is all an illusion is not one bit of it gives you any real security. In the end, and like little toddlers.

Can we admit will have much control little access other thing in pastoral ministry and in life and hopefully as I go.

Grow a little bit wiser each day I find myself admitting more and more each day. I am not in charge is if you get wiser.

You'll find yourself saying a whole lot more often. Well it is what it is. Well, I'm not in charge.

Well, I wish such and such would happen but I can control a wise person comes like a little child goes, I'm too little to think that I'm in charge of this world is so freeing when you come to that place same, beloved is that the secret to a worry free life is opposite of what most people think if you were to whether Christian or not. Be honest enough daringly honest enough to say I really don't have that much knowledge. I really don't have any stuff that give me any real security and I have very little control. If you'd be one of the few people that would be willing to do that it leave you with two choices. Either one you would just be lost and existential angst despair over I can't control this and I don't know what happened or you would turn to God because the more you are humbled. The more that you are aware of your need. The more you have to turn.

That's the secret of a little child. They know they know they don't know much have much control hardly anything, so the only way that they're going to go to live is to get help from someone stronger and wiser, and Jesus brings a little child a said if you are know what that rate is in the team by having to look right here.

This is what it's all about his living like this because guess what, beloved, compare your knowledge to God's knowledge.

My two-year-old had more knowledge.

Compared to me that I do compared to God. My two-year-old had more control. Compared to me that I have compared to an Almighty God who made everything that exists by two-year-old with a few toys had more than I have in this transient world where everything is turned to dust. I have to just say I'm too little time just I'm just a little child and what that dies is it makes you from God to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Children of this world have one skill that we would all benefit from learning and raise your hands up and say all me to say something children are expert toddlers on their daddy's pants and psych one of those know what I want to know that. Well, maybe we could anything they get to have to ask for someone asked me before we became parents what you looking forward to most.

I knew exactly. I knew exactly.

It wasn't that.

Maybe I'll have a boy will play golf together one day with great anyone that maybe I have a little girl will dance together one day it would know that it was very simple for me. I couldn't wait for there to be a human being in this world who would believe me totally it's so precious to have a little child who look at me and if I said I that John would believe me totally if I said there is a God that made everything that exists.

Here's a story let me read you about.

There was a man name Adam and a woman named Eve and God made everything in the garden, and it was beautiful and sloppy that there would be a human being, that would believe me totally and I would say there was a man who came who was God himself and his name was Jesus and he came because he loves you and he died for you and you can trust in him and have eternal life, and know that you're actually a child of God, and there be a human being. That would totally believe I wanted to feel the weight of a baby in my arms who had no other choice but to trust that I wouldn't dropper I wanted to have the joy of hoisting the child on my shoulders, who would giggle with delight and have no question about whether I would be strong enough to carry.

I look forward to standing in a swimming pool and have a toddler jump off the edge into my arms because that Tyler trusted that I would hold him strong enough I'll tell you what God loves God love for you to come to him because you're too little to do it on your own to what God loves God loves for there to be somebody there to believe the truth that he has God loves it when there's somebody that would receive his love.

Every good and perfect gift comes down from father God hears your one qualification that you have a relationship with God.

You need the best thing you can bring to God. Your humble, the most wonderful thing that God loves more than anything else is your simple childlike faith. So much so the Bible says without faith it is impossible to please God, nothing else all your acts of righteousness that is not what pleases them. God didn't have you create you because he needed some service he created you because you got so much love spell out of him. Everywhere you looking for somebody that will receive his love like a little child will so Jesus did not rebuke them for their question that I'm glad you asked.

The greatest limiting the scholars and the teachers know it's not James and John are well. Sorry you will boil giggle and squirming around is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

And here's the good news. When Jesus gives you a command.

Humble yourself and become like a little child is not only possible, but the promise of its fulfillment is in the command. He says humble yourself. It must be possible if he says humble yourself like a little child he's going to enable you to do your worry less, giggle more.

Take a look at a two-year-old this week. There is greatest in the kingdom and asked us your listening to shearing the line in our teaching sleeping like a baby from the series. No worries, and we get Alan back in the studio shearing a parting the new start for you to take away just a moment. Watch the way a one-year-old sleeps, not a care in the world or listen to the belly laugh of a toddler finding joy in the simplest things little children don't know the meaning of dread, freedom, wonder, and trust come naturally to little children. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be like a child again.

Here's the good news you can. Jesus invitation to become like a little child means it's possible when you make your generous donation ensuring like today will send you a special bundled gift that includes a two message audio CD that will help you manage worry and a copy of Alan Wright's book a childlike heart that will lead you into the freedom and wonder of childlike faith.

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That's probably what were talking, no worries at all.

Now I could go back there life right well if you've ever longed to be a child again thought about those simpler days when life didn't seem so complicated then you just didn't have so many worries. There's something that's just wonderful to think that you could have a chance of childhood. Again, think that's invitation the gospel when you're born a new year born in a spiritual way in which you put into a trust relationship with your father and I think he wants us to be like that and here's the interesting thing that what we've learned is that in order to appropriate this you must admit how much you don't know how much stuff you have the don't really matter and how much you really don't control very much in line right in those things that are hard for us to admit because we like to think we know a lot that our stuff really matters and that we are control but were not and when you get to that point something wonderfully freeing you become like a little child, childlike heart is just the whole big picture of a way you can live life with the heart of a little child always encouraged to hear from you whether you visit online shearing the God of war or call 877 like 60 again shearing the.O RG or call 8770 IG HT 60 get Alan Wright's daily shearing the devotional in your inbox each morning when you sign up shearing the who Archie this is been shearing the light right listener supported production sharing the