[Faith-talk] Daily Thought for Thursday, June 30, 2016

[Paul Smith]

Hello and good day to you all on this Thursday, the last day of June 
and the last day of the first half of 2016.  Hope your day is going 
well, by God's matchless grace and His providential care.

Sorry for this Daily Thought being somewhat early, but I have to go to 
the dentist this afternoon for a routine checkup and, depending on how 
I feel afterwards, I just might not be up to posting anything online.  
So I hope you all don't mind.

Today we have a contribution from an 8-year-old boy from Chula Vista, 
California, named Danny Dutton.  Now he may have gotten his theology 
wrong in some places, but if you were 8 years old right now, could you 
do any better? Anyway the title of his contribution is "Explain God," 
rendered as follows:

One of God's main jobs is making people.  He makes them to replace the 
ones that die so there will be enough people to take care of things 
here on earth.  He doesn't make grown-ups, just babies, I think because 
they are smaller and easier to make.  That way, He doesn't have to take 
up His valuable time teaching them to talk and walk, He can just leave 
that to mothers and fathers.

God's second most important job is listening to prayers.  An awful lot 
of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things, pray at 
times besides bedtime.  God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or 
TV on account of this.  Since He hears everything, not only prayers, 
there must be a terrible lot of noise in His ears, unless He has 
thought of a way to turn it off.  God sees everything and hears 
everything and is everywhere, which keeps Him pretty busy.  So you 
shouldn't go wasting His time by going over your parents' head asking 
for something they said you couldn't have.

Atheists are people who don't believe in God.  I don't think there are 
any in Chula Vista.  At least there aren't any who go to our church.  
Jesus is God's Son.  He used to do all the hard work like walking on 
water and performing miracles and trying to teach the people who didn't 
want to learn about God.  They finally got tired of Him preaching to 
them and they crucified him.  But He was good and kind like His Father 
and He told His Father that they didn't know what they were doing and 
to forgive them and God said OK.  His Dad (God) appreciated everything 
that He had done and all His hard work on earth so He told Him He 
didn't have to go out on the road anymore.  He could stay in heaven.  
So He did.  And now He helps His Dad out by listening to prayers and 
seeing things which are important for God to take care of and which 
ones He can take care of Himself without having to bother God.  Like a 
secretary, only more important, of course.  You can pray anytime you 
want and they are sure to hear you because they got it worked out that 
one of them is on duty all the time.

You should always go to Church on Sunday because it makes God happy, 
and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God.  Don't skip 
church to do something you think will be more fun like going to the 
beach.  This is wrong! And, besides, the sun doesn't come out at the 
beach until noon anyway.

If you don't believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very 
lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you, like to 
camp, but God can.  It is good to know He's around you when you're 
scared in the dark or when you can't swim very good and you get thrown 
into real deep water by big kids.  But you shouldn't just always think 
of what God can do for you.  I figure God put me here and He can take 
me back anytime he pleases.  And that's why I believe in God.

By this time Danny is probably in his 30's, but he sure learned me a 
lot about God.  Now if one of you can learn me more about the Bible, 
not just teach me, that would be well and good.  And what about the 
rest of you? Do you have something similar either said or written by 
some cute little girl? I think that would also be interesting to read.

And that will do it for today's Daily thought post.  Until tomorrow 
when, Lord willing more of the same will be sent, may the God of 
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob just keep us safe, individually and 
collectively, in these last days in which we live.  Your Christian 
friend and brother, Paul