Are you God's Intake?

        I will admit I paid no attention in church last night because I was writing something else that God put on my heart just at that moment and it took all of the sermon to write it out. It was another way that I could combine my job and living it out for God. It was also how God sees us at first and then we change into what He wants us to be.
          We are all intakes. Let me tell you what an intake is at my job. We call a new child an intake when they come in. I like that word because it is like we are taking them in to care for them. Instead of saying we have a new child coming in, we say we have a new intake coming. Kind of shortens the meaning in a way. I say we are all intakes because we walk to God like the child walks to me when he first gets to my job. The child could either be happy, shy, or crying their eyes out but who can blame them. We get ready for that one child. Get everything prepared for him or her and hope that they like it. We get excited and can't wait the child to come.
           I don't know if it is just me but I think every child is cute when they first come in. Perfect in every way. It's that moment when they walk through the door and we say, "awwww......". They come in dirty, sleepy, upset, and hungry yet we still love on them. They come in needing our help. We feed them first and then give them a bath to clean them up. We give them new clothes and other things while we wash their old ones. Does that sound like someone does that to us? We go to God all dirty and full of sins yet He washes us white as snow. He feeds us with strength and wisdom and energy. He makes us happy when we are sleepy. Even though we go to God all dirty, He still loves us just the same. His love can never change.
           We turn the child in a more beautiful being then ever before. We take them in and get to know them better and help them grow. We teach them in the way they should go and pray that they keep going in that way even after they leave. We take them under our wings. Doesn't God do that to us too? Doesn't He take us in and help us grow more in Him? Doesn't He shows us the way in which we should go? Sometimes we just look at God and say to Him, "I got them on my own" but yet He is waiting for us when we will admit that yes, we do need help to get through this. We need God to clean us and lead us on the right path.
             We think what they are like from the things we see or have heard. Sometimes though they are much cuter then we thought. That cuteness does wear off in about a week to 2 weeks though and they start to show their true selves but yet that first picture comes to mind and we still love them. We want to love them no matter what. We try everything we know to help them to learn how to cope and deal with hard situations in life.
             Cuteness in the Christian life is like that a lot.  When we give our lives over to Christ we are so pumped to learn and explore the new things about it but as we live in it and as hard situations come our way we turn away from it and try to do things our own way. We pray everyday and start to read the Bible but then we get too busy and that starts to fade away. It is until we are in a spot that we know we can't handle by ourselves that we turn back to God and ask for help. Then it is God that says, "Yes, cutie I am here to help you."
               The child's personalities start to show and you learn more about their past as they stay longer and more then anything they are just more beautiful then you could ever think they could be because they have been through so much in their lives already. You get to know everything about them and love them more. Just like God knows everything about us but still loves us with an everlasting, forever Love. He will always be there for us like we should be there for the children that are close to His Heart too.