Jesus Loves Me

I had an experience a couple of weeks ago that felt I should share.  I was in primary (which is another story in itself) a couple of weeks while the primary children were allowed to pick their favorite songs to sing.  One song the children seemed particularly excited about was Gethsemane.

Most of what they sang was inaudible, but every time they began to sing the first part of the chorus, they sang with gusto.  One of the primary leaders brought attention to what was going on by saying "that's all they know."

It's true.  They didn't know much of the song.  But, what they did know, they sang with all of their heart: "Gethsemane!  Jesus loves me!"  I was suddenly struck by the obvious lesson the primary children were teaching me.

A favorite verse of mine reads "I know that [the Lord] loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things."  Sometimes, we can be so troubled by things that we don't know and don't understand that we forget about the things that we do know.  We don't know everything, but that doesn't have to keep us from knowing and remembering  some very important things.

So many adults would probably prefer not to sing a song at all if they didn't know the whole thing, or ate least one verse and the chorus.  So many of us often feel that it's pointless to start out doing something if we don't know all the details.  Sure, it is preferable to know the whole things start to finish, but should we let ourselves be paralyzed merely because we don't know everything?

I personally have a lot of questions and a lot of things I don't know.  I don't what that to keep me from remembering and using what I do know.  I know that Jesus loves me, so I want to sing that out loud and strong just like those primary children.