Our soon-to-be-5-in-March grandson
spends
Tuesdays with us.
He loves
donuts
paintin’
and puzzles
games and gluing
play dough
and playgrounds
movies
sand
wrestling
Yup . . .
he’s busy
and smart
and he likes
to
put.his.toe.over.the.line
on occasion.
Yesterday
when asked
to put
an item in
a certain place
his reply
was
“I’ll put
it where I want to”
The momma
mode
in this Meme kicked into gear
(or as my
son would say
“he’s
barking up the wrong momma”)
and this
Meme replied
“It’s my
house
I’m the
boss
and I’ll
put that where
I want it.”
Truly spoken
like
one child to
another
Yes? Yes!
Well . . .
I’m pretty
sure that God gives us
children and
grandchildren
as a
direct channel of communication
with us
since we
don’t always
hear /
listen to God
in our “quiet
times”
I remember
saying
to my
children
“how many
times have I told you . . "
as God
at the very
same time
said to me
“and how
many times have I told YOU . . .”
Yesterday’s
“I’ll put
it where I want to”
was a gentle
reminder of the
rebellious
self-sufficient
I-know-what’s-best-for-me
I-can-do-it-myself
attitude, carnal
nature
toward God
when
God only
means to do us good
It is a
daily
sometimes moment-by-moment
knee-bending
(aka
submission)
to the
work of the cross
and
cleansing blood
of my Lord
and Savior
Jesus
Christ
It says in
Colossians 3:10 . . .
“Put on your new nature
and be renewed
as
you learn to know your Creator
and
become like him.”
(emphasis added)
(all of chapter
3, actually)
This putting
on of our new nature
of being
renewed
doesn’t
happen over night!
It happens
through
relationship
through time
in His presence!
So very thankful for
His unconditional
love
and
His great
grace and mercy . . .
and for
children and grandchildren!
and for
children and grandchildren!
