It's Sunday afternoon, in Borneo and it's scorching hot! We have just returned from an amazing wedding this morning in the nearby village of Manggala, which was a huge success. A Dutch lady got married to an Indonesian man, which caused a bit of a stir as westerners don't normally marry people from Borneo. The church was full and it was a great experience.
At the moment I am looking ahead to Bible school, I start in about 3 weeks, and also looking back over 2009. It's safe to say it's been another blessed year for me, jam packed with lessons and experiences. I don't normally like to dwell on anything that has pasted at all, but I'll take some time to share another lesson.

It's been a year filled with children. I haven't even chosen to work with kids, it just kind of happened and by the end of the summer term I was working with 5 kids groups every week on top of my gardening work (I did get VERY tired at some points but it was worth it). From Foy, to Lawshall (Sparkz) to Rougham Raiders football team, it's been a real journey and the kids have taught me so much. Children have an amazing way about them, you don't have a to a brainbox to work that one out. There is something beautiful about their innocence, the way they believe anything you tell them and the way they will do anything you tell them. I've usually found the older they get the less they believe you and the more they reason.
There is a huge lesson for us there, especially me. In Matthew chapter 18, Jesus talks about having a faith like the little children and I can easily see what He meant by it. "Unless you change and become like these little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven" were His words to the people around Him. You see, if you ask a child to do something or tell them to believe something they do it, they believe you. However, if you ask an adult to believe something or to do something the response is usually different. Jesus calls for a faith that believes and acts out God's will. A faith that does anything simply because that is what God says, without reasoning, without unbelief, without questions. A faith like a child is essential when serving God.
I have been blessed enough to go to many different places and work with children, and I have seen how they are all over the world, the same. The same willingness to do and go, they really are a blessing to us ol' reasoners. As Christians we need to stop making excuses and ways out ("but my mortgage, my family, my job") of doing things and have the simple faith like a child and do it. We don't need to go deep into theological issues and be way too clever for our own good, what we need is go back to believing like a child. As we've got old, we've got spoilt. If you tell a child that God preforms miracles today through ordinary people, they believe it. However, if you were to tell that to many adult an air of scepticism creeps in.
Lord forgive our own reasoning and unbelief. God, you can do anything!