Hearing from God Each Morning (July 27)

This blog is about today’s devotion in the book Hearing from God Each Morning by Joyce Meyer.

Today’s devotion came at a perfect time. Today I had a hard talk with a close friend about something someone did to betray me a couple months ago. Just talking about it hurt, and I have had a hard time trusting people because of it.

But today’s verse says to become like little children in order to be able to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 18:3). Children are described as trusting, lowly, loving, and forgiving. To become like children, we need to be these things.

This doesn’t mean we need to trust everyone we meet, but we do need to trust God. Also, we shouldn’t let one or two bad experiences get in our way of trusting people. It’s my personal belief that you should trust a person until they give you a reason not to, and even then, be open to forgiveness and giving them your trust again. In a lot of ways, that’s what children do. They trust, and when they get hurt, they forgive.

A friend of mine says that even with all that I’ve been through, I have an innocence about me. I believe that any innocence I seem to have is from God: He has given me the power to forgive and trust again, even after what I have gone through. In a lot of ways, God has made me like a child again. If He hadn’t, I’m not sure how I would be able to cope with the things I went through. It’s great to know that God can heal all wounds—even the ones on our hearts!