The key to life is a child-like faith in our heavenly Father. We need to trust that He knows what is best for us just as the trusting
little child does his earthly father. That little child may not understand or
agree with his father, but his love and faith in his father puts him at ease
with the day’s stress and pain. The child knows that whatever happens, his
father will hold him up, protect him, and do everything in his power to do what
is best for him. We too need this faith in our heavenly Father. When we have it,
we have discovered the key or meaning to life (actually God has revealed it to
us). Nothing that comes will be able to move us from the deeply known trust
that God has what is best for us. Distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword, or unemployment, or friendlessness, or homelessness
– nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God through our Lord
Jesus Christ and this knowledge will ground us day to day enabling us to have a
peace that passes all understanding. Lord, give us this today and never let us
forget.