Yesterday, we went to a Japanese steakhouse here on the complex. I always love those for a variety of reasons but one of the biggest is because you get to meet new and different people. I am definitely a connector and find it fun to meet new people from all over the world.
The couple sitting next to us was from the US but really from Poland. They had two boys, one was 6 and the other 9. We were asking them about restaurants they had eaten at and what they had done. The dad was telling us all the places and then ended with them having had a meal at the hospital one day. I asked what happened and they said their son had gotten drunk. They had left him in daycare and after a game of water polo, the caretaker gave him a Roman Coke. Keep in mind this was the 6 year old. He didn't know any better and before he knew it, he was passed out by the pool. The parents decided to stop back by the daycare after a massage just to see how the kids liked it. They saw their son passed out and were immediately concerned. The kids were able to articulate enough so that the parents knew he was drunk. They had to call an ambulace and go to the hospital.
As we were talking about this incredible story, I was thinking about my own kids and what they would have done. Mine are old enough to turn it away after a sip and realizing it wasn't pepsi. We were trying to imagine if when they were 6 if they would've known the difference - probably not. With time and distance comes knowledge. The same is true with our spiritual life. We need time to read and learn in order to have the wisdom we need to tell when we are being deceived and when we are being led. That little boy was depending on his caretaker to do the right thing for him as were his parents. He trusted that!
Re-Crucifying Jesus - Hebrews 5:11-14
11-14I have a lot more to say about this, but it is hard to get it across to you since you've picked up this bad habit of not listening. By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one—baby's milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! Milk is for beginners, inexperienced in God's ways; solid food is for the mature, who have some practice in telling right from wrong.
Where are you still relying on those around you to do your Christian walk for you? Where do you need to work on that relationship with God?
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