Through the Eyes of a Child

Psalm 19:1
The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.

My wife had a meeting at church tonight so it was Daddy’s night with the kids. After dinner my two year old wanted to go outside and look for Mommy, and so we did.

The weather in North Carolina is forever strange, and tonight was no exception as we stepped outside into a balmy sixty-degree night. We first looked for Mommy, but of course she was not yet home. Then my son noticed all of the lights in the cloudless sky. The stars were out by the billions. ‘Look Daddy”, he said, “the moon.”

The moon was not yet visible, and so I explained to him that what he was looking at was the stars that God had made. Almost is if he had been given the most amazing revelation he looked up and saw the whole entire sky. His eyes filled with the wonder that only a child’s eyes can have when he sees something for the very first time. He ran over to the steps and took a seat on the bottom one, and then patted it with his hand. “Sit Daddy”, he said. I sat down beside him and we looked up into the heavens, and watched the twinkling of God’s handiwork.

In my opinion there is only one thing more wonderful than watching the stars at night, and that is watching them through the eyes of a two year old for the very first time. For several minutes we sat on the steps and stared into the sky, sharing together an intimate moment with God.

I reveled in the truth of God’s word as my two-year-old son basked the glory of his Heavenly Father knowing without a doubt that the scriptures are indeed true; the heavens do really tell of the glory of God, and their expanse really is declaring the work of His hands. Praise the Lord!

“Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18:3