A child's Christmas

So yesterday I went with a friend to the Gordon Christmas parade and watched floats, cars, firetrucks, and a little horse and buggy ride down the street celebrating the Christmas season. The little horse and buggy that happened to be trotting along behind the parade was a little girl and her mother, who I know through friends and church. I got the chance to talk to them before the parade started and watch little KK ride and wave, so proud of her little horse and such a ham. After watching Kayleigh for a while I began to think of how the Lord looks at us and calls for us to become like little children. In Matthew 18:1-4 Jesus says "..unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." I remember back when I was a kid and how excited my brothers and I got about Christmas. We would all sleep in the same room and watch a movie in attempts to calm us down enough that sleep would overtake the excitement and Christmas morning would come sooner. I never real remember it being about getting the newest gameboy, or what cool new game my brother would get, or even getting the newest toy fad so we could be just like our friends. As a kid, I just remember it being the excitement of receiving something at all that made it enjoyable. I don't know about little kids as much these days but how many kids have you seen be just as content playing with the cardboard box that whatever toy you spent 5 hours in line and traveled to 3 stores to get came in as they are with the faddish toy itself? I believe as Christians we need to be more like that. We pray and ask God for this and that and we expect him to come through and give us that which we have asked for, but why are we not content with what the Lord does give us? We have houses, cars, families, friends, salvation but still we ask for more.  As adults were looking for big miracles, extravagent changes, and marvelous recoveries. Don't get me wrong, I believe the Lord is strong and powerful and can do great and mighty things but why ask Him to do more when He has already done and given so much? How much do we rejoice when we ask for something small thing and the Lord provides verses when we ask for something great and He provides? Isn't the something just as worthy of praise no matter the size? What have we overlooked in a little box in our lives that the Lord has so graciously blessed us with while we are waiting to see a porsche in the driveway. I challenge all of us to be a kid and be excited about the little things God does for us. Kids have the right idea, be happy to have a bow from a box to play with on Christmas morning rather than getting the porsche, and if the Lord decides to bless you with a porsche, rejoice! but don't overlook the tiny bow that He gave as a blessing just the same.