"look daddy..."
we do silly things. i was watching my 8 month old daughter the other day and i set her on our bed for just a moment. i turned my back to get a shirt out of the closet and the next thing i know she is on the floor crying. i of course quickly ran to my daughters rescue, picked her up into my arms and comforted her. you see, while she was on the bed, i had given her my keys to play with. she quickly moved to the edge of the bed, dangled them over the edge, and then cleverly decided to drop them on the floor. its her drop it and you pick it up game. unfortunately i wasn't there to pick them up and so in just a matter of seconds she decided she was going to pick them up and scooted herself right off the edge onto the floor.
after consoling her and figuring she learned a hard lesson i put her back on the bed, this time keeping a closer eye on her. she quickly grabbed the keys and sure enough, moved towards the edge of the bed. she then dangled them over the edge and then dropped them. i thought to myself, did you not just learn a painful lesson? what are you thinking? this time as she scooted herself right off the edge again, i was there to prevent her from falling. i could not figure out how or why she would make the same painful mistake just a few moments later.
it made me think about the israelites during the exodus. God saved them and brought them out of egypt. he made a deal with them when he gave them the ten commandments. he entered into a binding relationship with them. he only asked them to obey. as the story progresses, we read that they failed. God had compassion on them... and then they failed again. God had compassion on them yet again... and then they failed. each time making the same stupid mistakes.
how many times in our own lives do we make the same stupid mistakes. you would think we learn, but we do not. just like my daughter, we walk to the edge, dangling whatever we have over the edge, flirting with what we know will cause us eventual pain. and although God is always there to pick us back up it still hurts.
after my daughter dropped the keys a second time i decided to take her off the bed and put her on the floor. she quickly raced towards the keys on the floor, grabbed them and then looked up to me as if to say, look daddy, i did it. sometimes in our own lives we need to allow God just to take us off the bed and place us on the floor. when we allow him to wrap us in his arms and place us where he wants us life is a lot less painful. we can take hold of whatever it is he gives us, and then look and say, "look daddy, i did it."
after consoling her and figuring she learned a hard lesson i put her back on the bed, this time keeping a closer eye on her. she quickly grabbed the keys and sure enough, moved towards the edge of the bed. she then dangled them over the edge and then dropped them. i thought to myself, did you not just learn a painful lesson? what are you thinking? this time as she scooted herself right off the edge again, i was there to prevent her from falling. i could not figure out how or why she would make the same painful mistake just a few moments later.
it made me think about the israelites during the exodus. God saved them and brought them out of egypt. he made a deal with them when he gave them the ten commandments. he entered into a binding relationship with them. he only asked them to obey. as the story progresses, we read that they failed. God had compassion on them... and then they failed again. God had compassion on them yet again... and then they failed. each time making the same stupid mistakes.
how many times in our own lives do we make the same stupid mistakes. you would think we learn, but we do not. just like my daughter, we walk to the edge, dangling whatever we have over the edge, flirting with what we know will cause us eventual pain. and although God is always there to pick us back up it still hurts.
after my daughter dropped the keys a second time i decided to take her off the bed and put her on the floor. she quickly raced towards the keys on the floor, grabbed them and then looked up to me as if to say, look daddy, i did it. sometimes in our own lives we need to allow God just to take us off the bed and place us on the floor. when we allow him to wrap us in his arms and place us where he wants us life is a lot less painful. we can take hold of whatever it is he gives us, and then look and say, "look daddy, i did it."
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