4-Year-Old Spiritual Reflections, or Let Jesus Crack Your Heart Open

I picked up a 4-year-old little girl who spends a lot of time with my family from daycare this evening. We were admiring Christmas lights as we drove through the neighborhood to my house, and this is the conversation that ensued:

Little Girl: Ooh! Look at those Christmas lights, Chantell!
Me: Yeah, they’re pretty. But do you know what Christmas is for?
LG: Jesus. Christmas is Jesus’s birthday.
Me: That’s right.
LG: Is Jesus going to come down on Christmas?
Me: Ummm . . . maybe. No one knows when Jesus is going to come down.
LG: (pouting) Hmmph. I want Jesus to come down. Jesus is never going to come down.
Me: Yes, He’s going to come down someday. But do you know where he is right now?
LG: Where?
Me: In your heart.
LG: Yeah, one day he’s gonna come out your heart. He’s gonna crack your heart open and come out.

I almost lost control of the car from laughing so hard. Why would she think a thing like that? Jesus cracking your heart open? It sounds almost brutal.

But I thought about it for a while. Children really have an uncanny sensitivity about things. I thought that maybe Jesus cracking your heart open isn’t such a bad idea. Maybe Jesus coming out is the point, the goal, even.

We begin our walks with God and we “let Jesus into our hearts.” But as time goes on, sometimes we keep Him locked up in there, all to ourselves. We don’t allow Him to fill us to overflowing, allowing Him to spill over into the lives of others around us. But we need to be His hands and feet, as Audio Adrenaline proclaims. We need to let Him out.

Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes (Matthew 11:25).

Spanish word/phrase of the day: el corazón (ehl coh-rah-SOHN) = the heart

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