Sometime we tend to act like children too!

I was thinking about it this morning while I was doing my hair. I was straightening my hair and Ezra was at my feet, and Ezra was trying to grab the wire to the straightener. When I told him no because it was hot, he fussed and cried at me. It had me thinking, don’t we tend to act that way to God when he says no to something. We cry and complain because we didn’t get our way not knowing that God was protecting us from something that could hurt us.

1 thought on “Sometime we tend to act like children too!”

  1. I love it when God speaks His truth to us, and then through us, in the simple everyday things of life.
    Same message – different everyday… Abundant blessing to you on your journey as you seek and find the Lord in all His glory!

    He Takes Away the Sin of the World
    Jody R Goode © 3/23/2016

    So what human being who walks in a room to find their child – or any child for that matter – in the process of sticking the end of a wire hanger into a live outlet would overlook the mortal danger and not immediately race to the child to take the hanger away in order to keep that child safe from harm? And the answer is? … NO ONE! Please tell me I’m right about that!

    If you were the kid in that moment, you probably wouldn’t know what happened to you. All you know is one second you were intently working on making straight the really cool wire thing you’d found so you could fit it into the holes of that funky looking plate thing on the wall to see if the wall opened up to another room just like when Mom puts her metal toy into the knobby thing on the wall outside and makes it open up, and the next second your wire thing has been snatched right out of your hands and you’re being whisked away from your magic wall by a big person who is rambling on in that “whaa whaa wha wha whaaaaaa” language that makes no sense at all and making you cry because they’ve ruined everything!

    If we’re honest, we know we don’t have to be of toddler age to be caught doing something we shouldn’t be doing – something that will cause us or others harm in ways we can’t comprehend or simply choose to ignore because of the thrill and pleasure it brings in the moment. More often than not, isn’t it the small less obvious things that plague our hearts and minds and are acted out in less than honorable words and deeds? Even with the best of intentions, I know I often catch myself asking how I could have possibly said or done this or that and I am reminded just how flawed I am and horrified by the damage I can so easily inflict.

    Though the child whose wire thing is being snatched from their hands and himself whisked away sees the whole ordeal as punishment, the big person doing the snatching and whisking sees it as a rescue the child could in no way accomplish on his own.

    So it is with us. For a plethora of reasons we just don’t know to what depths we have fallen. We need to have our own big person spurred only by a deep loving concern for our welfare to rescue us and take from us that which he knows will kill us, even if it kills him to do it.

    Thank God we do. No, I mean it, thank Him right now!

    Romans 6:23 (NASB) For the wages of sin is death…
    John 1:29 (NASB) – “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

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