MONSTERS in the CLOSET

My almost three year old grandson was visiting for the past week and it had been about 2 1/2 months since we last saw him. (A very long time for this Honey Noni). It is true, every word, grandchildren are the absolute BEST! He lights up my world! He is a powerhouse of energy and I wish I could plug in and borrow a tiny bit of the endless bucket he seems to possess.

He has grow up a lot in this little span of time. Taller, slimmer and oh so talkative. He is the spitting image of my son at this age, including the talking and fairly extensive vocabulary.

Anway, what we noticed on this visit there was a little bit of fear creeping into his words- much more tentative and talking about “MONSTERS” and being scared. You know, the old “monsters in my closet” and “can you leave the light on?” Or there are monsters outside or anywhere.

At first, I found myself saying to him constantly – “There are no such things as monsters buddy, it’s all ok. You don’t need to be afraid.” But, as I found myself praying over him this week, either in my quiet time or a little bullet prayer, as he was talking about the monsters, I changed my thoughts.

You see a while back I read about a man who saw into the spirit from the time he was a little child. Sometimes he saw angels and sometimes he saw demons. God was reminding me that when I was small, I too saw those things. So, it stopped me a little and made me think telling him there is no such thing might not be the best approach.

I began asking the Lord to help G discern, yes, even at almost 3 years old. Lord, build in him a discerning spirit and eyes and ears for you, and you alone.

On our way to have pizza night with the family, G was looking out the window and talking about all the MONSTERS out there and he was a little scared. I told him, “Tell those monsters to get out-a-here G! “you go away in the name of Jesus!” We had a brief little moment to talk about, when you are scared -talk to Jesus and He will protect you and care for you. Sure enough, as soon as we were home, getting a bath and ready for bed, he was already telling the monsters in the closet to “Get out and go to Jesus”

Simple really and yet how many times as adults are the monsters popping into our ‘closet” (head/thoughts) and we camp on the fear instead of asking Jesus to re-direct our minds and stand in the power HE has for us? There is a reason God commands us to “capture our thoughts” and it starts early by re-directing our focus to Him.