“I want to be a Barbie Twirly Bee! And have a wormmade tail!” (Trasnlation: she wants to be a Barbie ballerina/fairy that she saw on the movie and wants a mermaid tail.. not sure about the worm influence)
These are the kinds of aspirations that come out of the imagination of my 3 year old cousin, Chapman. Over Christmas break I was able to spend time with sweet Chappie. My favorite thing to do is watch her twirl around the living room, believing that she is the most elegant ballerina who has ever twirled. Talking to her dad on Christmas, we found out her newest train of thoughts. “Daddy, where is Jesus? Where is Heaven? How did he get up there? How can I go up there?” I suppose these answers were all she needed to form her plan. “Daddy, I’m going to put on my fairy wings and fly up to Heaven and sit on Jesus’ lap and give Him a kiss!”
Immediately these verses flood my mind:
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14
“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise.” 1 Corinthians 1:27
She’s 3 and she gets it.
She just wants to be with Jesus.
I truly believe one of the biggest pitfalls of Christianity is how complicated we make it. We sift through the smallest of details and miss the big picture. Jesus wants to be with us. He wants us to want to be with him. If we even understand one iota of who He is and how He loves us, we would be asking if we could put on our fairy wings too. Once upon a time, we got it. And then we lost it by complicating it.
Think about Jesus’ life. It was simple. He taught about love. He loved us so much (For God so loved the world He gave His only son..) and longs us to return the love and extend it to others (Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself) Chappie doesn’t know the books of the Bible. She can’t recite the Sermon on the Mount. Nor can she explicate Revelation (which is a hilarious mental image and would be a youtube sensation, for sure.) But she knows what love is. She knows how Jesus loves her and that she loves Him. She knows that she wants to go see Him, crawl up in His lap and kiss His cheek!
She wants to be with Jesus.
It’s what we were created for. It’s who we were created for. In the light of this realization, we want to be with Him.
There is about a million other thoughts I could say, but at some point, I would probably complicate even this. It’s not complicated. It’s simple. It’s a simple fact of love. A love that is wildly out of control.
A love so great, there is one response.
We’re gonna need a lot of fairy wings.
To read more on faith like a child check out what Jon Acuff has to say about grace:
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