You Gotta Have Faith

Could this 9-year-old boy's faith, patience and persistence teach us all a lesson?A recurring theme of yesterday and today has been faith and trust. So whenever I keep hearing, reading and seeing these repetitive reminders, I get a clue and take it as God trying to say something. Sometimes cliché "Christian" phrases like "trust God" and "have faith" seem to be thrown at us so often. We begin to ignore them or just never really grab them and understand them. 

This morning, to add to the devotionals, songs, and conversations that have repetitively been reminding me of faith, I watched this inspiring, heart-warming film. If you have 11 minutes, take the time to watch this story of creativity, persistence and faith... and a boy named Caine. 

Caine was only 9-years old. He had no hope of any customers coming to his father's store to play his hand-made, cardboard arcade, but he kept working! How many of us give up so easily at the tiniest inkling of failure. Caine had no customers yet "he spent months preparing everything, perfecting the game design, making displays for the prizes, designing elaborate security systems, and hand labeling paper-lunch-gift-bags." 

So are we preparing and having faith in the same way in our own lives? Are you living with faith and trust that God will bring your "arcade" to life? Caine had everything ready. If he had not worked hard every day, that filmmaker would've never noticed him, and his dream would've never come to life. 

As my morning devotional put it, we need to thank God for the answers he has already "set into motion long before you can discern results." We should not pray and pray as if God isn't hearing us. He hears us, and we need to start having trust and faith that He actually does have bigger plan. 

So what is your "arcade"? It is finding "the one"? Is it finding your dream job? Is it waiting for an opportunity for your talents to be used? Whatever it is, let's all take a lesson from Caine. When his dad asked him, "Hey Caine, can we go home early today? We had no customers."

"No," he interrupted, "No can do!"