Child Like Faith

So Edgar is out of town again--this is the second trip this week, but that means business is good, so although we don't particularly like it, we appreciate the income.  This morning the kids and I all had to be up and out of the house before 8:00, which was a little challenging with the time change but we made it.  

We went in early because I had an appointment to do a baptism interview with a little boy.  When I met him and his mom I was struck by the fact that he was really little--I mean young, small, and short.  When I ask him how old he was and he said "five", my first thought was 'he is too young to understand this very important decision'.  Boy was I wrong!

This precious little guy told me the day and the time he asked Jesus to come live in his heart.  He then went on to describe, in his limited vocabulary, the concept of sin and how it applied to him.  When I asked him why he wanted to be baptized, he said, "because I sinned and Jesus died for me, and I want to make Him happy."  Wow, pretty good don't you think?  I looked at his mom who had been careful to keep her back to us so as to not influence his answers to my questions.   She said, "I know he is young, but he has been asking for months when he can be baptized, and we kept thinking about what Jesus said about child-like faith, so here we are."

This got me thinking  about the concept of 'making Him happy'.  I know what to do to make my kids happy, to make my husband happy, to even make my dog happy.  But making God happy is a big order.   I mean, He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, He doesn't need anything, and He already knows everything.  There is nothing I can do to make Him love me more, or less, than He already does because His love is perfect.  

I know that we can bring sacrifices to God which are pleasing, and the psalmist refers to mediating on His word in a manner that is pleasing to God.  I think it will be interesting to study the Bible and see how many things we can do to actually make God happy.  I want to live my life in a way that is pleasing to Him.  As we preparing to celebrate Easter many Christians choose to 'give up' some of their favorite things as a sacrifice; I would like to discover specific things I can actually do to 'make Him happy'.  If I am successful, I think both God and I will be blessed.