To adults, childhood is filled with an innocence that is almost magical.
However, to the child living out his or her childhood, those early years are the only reality they know. When he is hungry, the pain is just as severe. When she grows angry, the feelings are just as jagged.
The innocence of childhood has nothing to do with lack of pain or with a sugary existence that is more fairy tale than reality. The innocence comes from the confidence that even when bad times come, there is someone children can turn to who will help them solve their problems.
In our walk with the Lord, we have the same sort of innocence. True, we wrestle with larger problems than a five-year-old has to deal with. We have the rent to pay, food to buy, and a hundred other things that weigh on our shoulders. These are things that would crush a child, and we choose to shoulder them so that our children can deal with the smaller issues that make up their lives.
Our adult innocence? It is in knowing that there is someone we can turn to who will help us solve our problems.
In Lamentations 3:55 Jeremiah cries, “I have called upon your name, O Lord…”
The great prophet called out just as any child will do, crying, “Daddy, Daddy,” to his heavenly Father.
Then in Lamentations 3:57 the prophet declares, “…You said, Fear not.”
Jeremiah knows where his help comes from. He has someone that he can trust to stand up for him against whatever comes his way.
All those centuries ago Jeremiah knew the Father’s touch, that same protective hand that safeguards us today from problems that are greater than us. When we rest under that divine protection, we will know an innocence that is almost magical, because our Father in heaven will have everything under control.
When we feel defeat coming our way, we have a Father in heaven who will keep his hand over us.
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