But What if God Doesn't Have any Fun Toys?

Last night as I was putting my youngest son, Brett, to bed we sang "Take me out to the ballgame" (one of his favorites) and then I sang to him "Jesus Loves Me".  After finishing, I looked in his eyes and said, "Brett, you know that Jesus died on the cross for your sin so that you can live with Him forever in Heaven."  His eyes were glued to mine, which is unusual, because he never looks anyone in the eye.  In that moment I thought he completely misunderstood what I was saying, but then IT happened!  He burst out crying uncontrollably and said, "But what if God doesn't have any fun toys??"  After several minutes of talking to him about how good God is and loving he is he finally calmed down, but not before naming things he would miss like his tractor and bike.

As we were talking I was thinking, my three year old doesn't want God or Heaven for the very same reasons most people don't want Him.  That is, they believe that if they have God they can't have all the other "fun" stuff in their life, and if they don't have the other stuff that they will be miserable and they will miss out on life.  Actually the very opposite is true.  If we have all the other stuff, but don't have God, we are  miserable and we miss out on life.


John 10:10  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Mark 8:35-36  For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.  36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?