God's Dream for a Child

I was study the first 25 verses of Genesis for my Bible study this week and those 25 verses hit me in a way they never did before. For the first 6 days, He knew what He wanted and it was good. He made the sky, land, sun, moon, plants, and animals. He saved the best for last of course, humans or He thought He did. He did everything in a order too, which is important in our lives. We have to see what God wants, sperpate sin from God, and then plant those seeds so God can let them grow and produce more or something along those lines. God used the Sun, moon, and stars to light the way. To me, that is like The Father, Son, and Holdy Spirit. Then I got to thinking about the Garden of Eden and what Eve did there. Everything in the garden was good she had all she needed but she had a free choice. Look at it from a child's point of view. When a child is born, that child is innocence no matter what world they come into. God made each of us for a purpose so on that child's heart there is a dream from God. As children, we always dream to do something big and go other places but as we grow up we have more free choice and we tend to sin because that is the world we live in. A sinful world. I'm thinking about this because of where I am in life right now. Growing up since I could remember I wanted to do two things: be a teacher and travel the world. I remember thinking when my brother traveled all of the world or so I thought when I was little I would love to do that and be just like him. We would write letters back and forth. He would send me things from the countries he was in. I miss those days to be honest and just a moment to be a little sister. I never felt like I fit in anywhere my family would move to espically in high school. That was the worst but now I know God was preparing me to have that feeling and be okay with it in another country. God had other plans first for me and I had to change some of the "little" things like my college degree from elementary ed to FACS: Child Development. The college I wanted to go to which glad I did. I'm starting to see why He had me do that though now. It is up to us and the free choice we have to pick God's way or the highway. I've noticed lately I've been picking the highway until this job I have now. I have been off roading. Yes, I did just say that. God can lead us in the way He wants us to go but we have to be willing to go with Him not take some country back road. I was put on this earth for a purpose and so were each of us. I have to remember that so many times because lets just say I wouldn't be here if it was for God wanting me here. What I'm saying through all of this is God puts a dream in our hearts when we are children and it is our choice to follow Him so He can take us to that dream. We could be like Eve and pick the sin in our lives or we could pick God. We are humans and God gave us choices hoping we would pick Him. He could use us to bring the world back to how He first planned it before Eve. Yes, we do sin that is just our nature and we can't hear God clearly as they could in the garden before the bite of the apple but we need to try with the people and things around us. I'm just seeing for me that that dream I had as a child was from God because He is doing everything He is now to get me that and I'm listening this time. I challenge you to think back on the dream you had as a child and are you really doing it. If not is it something reasonable that maybe you could ask God about doing for you. I've always had a heart for missions, other nations and cultures but til I moved here to the home of Wal-Mart I never knew how strong that feeling really was plus feelings for abused and nelegted children. I lived around them for most of my life but never saw it until now. God has a purpose for everything we just have to look and listen for it.