A new baby was born into the household. That hadn’t happened in just under thirteen years. As soon as the new baby was placed in its bassinet, Bess made a request. At first, the parents refused because Bess was a gifted child and surely didn’t know how to respond to a newborn. But, at Bess’s persistence, they relented and let her go in alone. Standing just outside the door peeking in, they quickly realized their fears were unfounded. Bess tip toed up to the crib and placed her face just outside Misty’s and whispered: ‘ Tell me what its like to be close to God? I have been gone awhile and I feel I am forgetting. You can whisper it to me since you’re not supposed to talk, or, just squeeze my finger and I’ll know.’ Bess placed her finger in the very little hand and it pressed so tight! ‘Oh yes, now I remember’ and she began to weep. ‘It feels so wonderful coming thru your little hand, God is so sweet and now I remember how He loved me so much. I knew He did, but I was just forgetting.’ ‘Thank you little sister, and I want you and I to remind each other as long as we live.’
The parents walked in with tears streaming down their faces, and stood with Bess looking at Misty and realized they were all babies at that very moment before the Lord. It is those moments that make a family, it is those moments that binds our lives to the Lord. It was that moment that started Dad and Mom on their own journey to feel God on a regular basis and it has been so for a long, long time. ” Out of the mouth of babes”, means more than we so often allow it to. It is the voice of a baby that speaks directly to God, that is much, much better than a mere prayer.
I know this is the season we tell the baby Jesus story in many ways, but lets do something better this year. Lets all just take a prayer time and go before the Lord as a child without words and groan praise and adolation unto the Lord. Wash out the world and focus on Him as He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
