The Divine Crash

For my Son’s second birthday he got a talking Tonka Truck show in this video.

My son loved the truck and would play with it until today.  Today was the day we figured out the option to make it voice activated, if we say “Chuck the Truck” it will say a few words and then come to us, however the truck would also react to loud noises, clapping, or anything else.  As a result of all this my son was terrified.This toy is a tenth the size of my son yet when it would roll when he didn’t want it to roll. My son would run to me, grab me, and scream that little-boy cry that makes my heart melt.

For all purposes he shouldn’t be afraid of this truck but he is.  My son has the power to walk over and kick the truck in its plastic face and knock it across the room, yet he doesn’t, instead he runs to me and cries on my shoulder until I fix it for him, by picking up the truck and turning it off, rip out the batteries and mock the truck by pointing at it and saying “Stupid truck, you AIN’T NOTHIN’!!”  This makes my son laugh and feel a little better and with another hug he is off playing with something else.

I don’t know why my son is so terrified of this truck but when I picture it through his eyes I can begin to understand what is he is feeling.  Suddenly my son has lost control and does not know how to get it back.

How often is that us? However often do we have the power to overcome what we fear and we don’t.  Instead we are so paralyzed with fear we can only whimper a little.

Yet sometimes the things that we are frightened of truly are bigger than us.  They are monumental and we should run to God and let God fix it.

The trick is knowing the difference, what things can we kick across the room and what things do we need to let God find the off switch, or rip out the batteries?

I don’t have any answer to that question.  All I know is that when my son is scared I will rip the batteries out of whatever is frightening to him, and when I read the Bible I find a God who does the same thing, even with the mocking.

Many people are terrified of death, just absolutely terrified of it and we run to God paralyzed with fear that someday we will die so God does what any loving parent does.  Grab hold of death, rip out its power source, put it back and mock it. “Where O Death is your sting, Where O Death is your victory!”  Death has lost, the scoreboard is God 1 and death 0.  Suddenly the thing we feared the most is now impotent to harm us.

We may still be frightened of death but there is no need because death is not the end, death isn’t even the beginning, death is but a blip on the story line of life.  So we give one more hug to God and we can play knowing that the things that terrify us the most have been dealt with forever and can never hurt us again.

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