Chrys and I find that experiences with our grandchildren offer so many lessons for our spiritual walks with Christ. Here’s one excerpted from my new release Finding Deep and Wide.  I pray God will use it to positively impact the way you do life with Him, even as you nourish the faith of your sweet grands.

…When my grands spend the night, I tuck them into bed in a guest room down our back hall. They’ve learned that come the next morning, they’ll find me in the great room with my Bible and my coffee. As soon as their little eyes open, they are bent on one destination— Keggie and her chair. Down the hall they come.

Let me tell you what they don’t do when they reach the great room door. They don’t peek around the corner to try to gauge my mood. They don’t try to decide if they should close the distance quickly or if they should tiptoe toward me. They don’t stand there wondering if they should sing loud or low, fast or slow. They don’t wonder if Keggie is going to be happy to see them or if she is upset because they ate the candy she told them not to eat the day before, and they don’t worry about whether they broke something she told them not to touch.

Oh, no, ma’am! They round the corner without breaking stride! Hopefully, I’ve heard them coming and put my coffee down because once they get close to my chair, they launch themselves at me. I catch them, and we snuggle, giggle, and talk. And yes, I may have a talk with them about the hidden candy or the broken vase. Or I might tell them what we’re going to do that day and what I expect of them. Direction, correction, or affection—it all comes out of intimacy and fellowship.

This is the privilege of relationship granted us in Christ Jesus. Nothing in us can earn it, and nothing in us can keep it. But because this grace-soaked Gospel seems to us too good to be true in the face of what we know about ourselves, it behooves us to live reminding ourselves over and again that our access to God comes through Jesus, the Door. I wasn’t exaggerating when I said this is the fight of our spiritual lives. If we don’t fight to rest in what Jesus has done and is doing, we’ll fall back into our old efforts to sustain and obtain what we didn’t begin and can’t finish! Jesus gives us new life, and we must have Jesus to live it. Jesus, faith’s rest.