Mommy, It was About a Snake!

The other morning I was getting ready for work and Reagan came up to me because she had a bad dream.  "Mommy, I had a bad dream."  I responded, "Honey, what was your dream about?"  She proceeded to tell me that she had a bad dream about a snake.   

As my daughter was telling me about her dream, I caught myself kinda of chuckling (without her seeing).  In my mind it was so silly.  It is just a snake.  In my daughter's world, this was a big deal.

I didn't want her to think that I didn't care that she had a bad dream, I wanted her to know that I care.  I bent down and told her that it was just a dream and that she had nothing to worry about.  I gave her a hug and a kiss and we kept going with our day.  

Just as I comforted my daughter, that is what God does for us.   Proverbs 18:10 says "The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe."  God is our strong tower, he is there when we need comforted.  How often do we run to him though?  

I would be lying if I said that I run to Him every time I needed comfort.  We tend to run to other people, food, drinking, social media, etc.  Where do you fall in those list of things?  God is the one that we need to be running to, but we don't.  Why don't we?   He is our Father, he is the one who cares the most about us.  Yet, we choose not to.  Why do we choose that?   

I have found that in my own life it is because I am embarrassed and I am worried about feeling like a failure in front of God.  But he knows everything, so why should I be?

Just like Reagan came to me with her bad dream to be comforted, we need to run to our Heavenly Father when we need to be comforted. Take a moment to think about what or whom that you run to when you need to be comforted.  Is it God or something/someone else?