| | Taking care of babies is hard work! I should know. I'm the parent of three pre-schoolers, and take an active role in the parenting process. Anyway, it seems like with babies that you are constantly feeding them a bottle, soothing them during a crying episode, or worst of all, changing them due to a blowout in their diaper (I apologize to all those with queasy stomachs)
I know some of you at this point are like, "What's your point, Matt? Do you want us to present you with some kind of 'Father of the Year' award or something? I admit, it would be nice to receive a little plaque or trophy for my outstanding effort and performance as a father, but that's not my point.
Let me explain by quoting Scripture and then we'll go from there.
Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn't talk to you as I would to mature Christians. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in the Christian life. I had to feed you with milk and not with solid food, because you couldn't handle anything stronger. And you still aren't ready, for you are still controlled by your own sinful desires. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn't that prove you are controlled by your own desires? You are acting like people who don't belong to the Lord. 1 Cor 3:1-3 (NLT)
So, imagine with me for a moment an adult who looks like, talks like, and acts like a baby. This adult needs to be fed every 2 hours. He has to take 4 naps a day or he'll be extremely cranky. He won't stop screaming in the middle of Wal-Mart unless you shove a pacifier in his mouth. Now, I think I can speak for all of us and say that this would be at the very least,weird, right? But more than that, this would be a serious problem.
And yet as I look around me (and often times as I look at myself), I see people who claim to follow Christ looking like, talking like, and acting like, "Chucky" from the Rugrats. There's just absolutely no maturity in their lives.
Now, I'm not proposing that you never ever burp out loud in public again (though I think it's a good idea to keep your burps to yourself!) However, I am proposing that you begin to take your relationship with God a little more seriously.
Well, this is starting to sound like a sermon so let me finish. It's time for us to put our pacifiers down, take our bibs off, drop our bottles right where we are, and start becoming less and less like "Baby Bob", and more and more like the One who gave His life for us.
Growing ever so slowly,
Matt
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| | Posted 10/7/2005 10:17 AM - 16 Views - 32 eProps - 20 comments
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