My little cousin had been exactly 365 days with us upon this earth when we took him to the beach for the first time. And of course, with all the new and exciting experiences a one year old can find upon a beach in the middle of Flint, the first thing Chase does is eat a mouthful of sand.
No, I am sure it did not taste like he excepted.
To say the least, he learned his lesson and didn't try to eat any more landscape...at least until the next day when he tried to eat a pine cone.
I was thinking about this experience and it made me realize how silly we are as humans sometime. Why do we not do what we know we ought? Why do we always fail to succeed in the pursuits that we constantly wish to do and succeed in the things we hate to do? Remind you of a set of verses in Romans? I do this all the time. Only until recently did I realize that it is actually a sin to worry and excessively try to reason the answers out of life and not trust in God. Yet, I constantly find myself putting temptation in my path. I will check facebook which will trigger a worry--(have you ever noticed you find out stuff you never want to know about people on facebook? Facebook makes me feel father away from people than I could imagine. When the people you want to acknowledge you, ignore you it hurts. The people you would wish ignore you, never leave you alone! Bah! The agony!)
So why do what we know is NOT taking us down the path of peace? Why do put into our lives: busy schedules, unfounded fears, indulgent worries, unhealthy diets, nights locked in front of computers, questionable music, movies of vapid content, friends who don't promote Christian living--why do we eat sand?I guess like my stubborn baby cousin, we just have to be silly until we finally learn what is eatable and what isn't. For some people it may take awhile. Chase has finally stopped eating nature...he has moved onto chocolate donuts, spaghetti O's, and ear buds.
"Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." Colossians 3:2
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
...When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!"~Romans 7:15-25
