March 26, 2011

here's a picture God showed me: there was a child with a giant cereal box. she had both of her arms inside of the box. she was searching for the prize in the bottom. she really wants the prize. she's digging and digging. she gets really frustrated and is ready to be done with it. so, what does she do? does she give up? NO!!! when a child really wants something, they don't give up! so, she turns the box over! when the cereal is all poured out, she begins to push through the cereal until she finds the prize! she never gave up! she never stopped searching! I felt like God was saying that life is like the box that holds the cereal. all the stuff in life is the cereal. sometimes life is the good cereal that we love and other times, it's the gross kind that our parents bought because it was on sale. He was saying that in life, HE is the prize. He's in the good "cereal" and in the bad/gross "cereal." He wants us to search like the child did! even when the "cereal" is bad, a kid will still look for the prize! He wants us to really search for Him, the prize when the "cereal" is bad! He makes all things worth it! He tells us that if we seek, to keep seeking and we'll find it! (mt 7:7-12) we need to keep seeking, to keep knocking, and to keep asking! He'll make all the "cereal" worth it!