For Such Are the Kingdom of God

Just sitting on the porch swing having peaceful thoughts. Grass freshly mowed. Barn door fixed.

Grandson Tyler stayed over last night. Insisted that, "I'm getting big! I can say the prayer tonight!" He did a good job.

Long after he had gone to sleep, I lay thinking about how his faith was much greater than mine. In fact, his faith was absolute -- no doubts or theological questions to cloud it up.

Made me think about all of us adults with all of our different denominations, traditions, knowledge, and so on ad nauseum. What exactly is God looking for? How much we know? Who belongs to the right club? Who was baptised in what way?

Perhaps God really does not care what we know or what denomination we belong to. Perhaps he only cares about the heart and that is why there are six billion denominations -- because He could care less. Because in each of those denominations are people with hearts that he can look at and weigh. Perhaps He figures that, if He wanted to, He could write the "truth" across the sky and everyone would sing from the same songbook. But perhaps education is not his goal for us humans.

Perhaps the "whats" of our beliefs are not nearly as important to him as our hearts. Perhaps there will come a time he will ensure all will know the "truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".

Little Tyler knows little about theology, but he has faith and love without question. Perhaps THAT is what our Creator wants from us and perhaps THAT is what we "adults" replace with our theology.

My little grandson, Tyler -- for such are the Kingdom of God.