When the kid speaks, we listen!

Toddler Sermons

My daughter preaches to me. I mean no she doesn’t stand in a pulpit with bible verses and all that. Still, she preaches. Her most recent sermon was on fear. You see someone somewhere taught my daughter to be scared. They taught her to fear things. I don’t know who it was, but I am very annoyed with them. Now, an airplane flies over head and my daughter says that it scared her. A commercial on TV is too loud and she says it scared her. Her actually words are “it scare me?” It’s normally kind of a question as she is still learning. Of course, I’m not having any of this. I respond, “yes, airplanes carry you.” Or I grab her, look her in the eyes and inform her that she is not scared, she is brave, she is strong, and she is smart. I’m not having any of this fear stuff in my house. But, that hasn’t kept it out of my heart. The other day, I’ll be honest, I was complaining to someone that my daughter keeps saying the she is scared. I was just so frustrated, because it’s completely a learned emotion. We are born fearless and somewhere along the way fear creeps in. As I am mentioning this, a small voice simply asks me,” why are you so afraid?“

If I am so confident that none of these things should scare my daughter, then why do I live my life scared.

If I know that fear is not of God, then why does it play such a big role in my life.

If I know that I am called to live fearlessly, then way am I so afraid to take that leap of faith.

The bible clearly says not to fear over and over again. I even have even written about fear before. Yet, somehow it’s running rampant in my life.

So I am here today, to virtually look you in the eyes and tell you.

We are Brave

We are Strong

We are Powerful

We are Wonderfully and Fearfully made

So today, go out and be fearless, because fear is not of God. It’s just a learned emotion, a tactic of the enemy, and a destroyer of peace.