I love this little interchange between my grandchild and I. The link below will take you to the video. It happened at Christmas 2005, but it blesses me everytime I watch it. I love to see her innocence and expressions.
I am also fascinated at her noticing a flaw and even at the age of 15 months already assessing blame.
We tend to notice things that are wrong, flawed, out of place. We quickly try to assess blame, as if to justify its' existence and somehow bring order into our little world. Sometimes things get so flawed that it must be God's fault, so we blame Him. And the more we blame Him, the farther away from Him we get. Only when we see a God of Power, controlling and even using the chaos and flaws around and within us, do we have peace in our life.
Shy and sickly as a teen, but now I'm not. Some people think I'm outgoing. I am real proud of my six children. I am real thankful my wife has put up with me and is still eager to please me.
Napoleon wrote:
"The Bible contains a complete set of facts and of historical men to explain time and eternity, such as no other religion has to offer. Everything in it is grand and worthy of God. Even the impious themselves have never dared to deny the sublimity of the Gospel, which inspires them with a sort of compulsory veneration.
"The Gospel is not merely a book; it is a living power surpassing everything else. I never omit reading it, and I read it daily with fresh delight. Nowhere else is to be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable moral maxims, which pass before us like the battalions of a celestial army! The soul can never go astray with this Book for its guide."
We tend to notice things that are wrong, flawed, out of place. We quickly try to assess blame, as if to justify its' existence and somehow bring order into our little world. Sometimes things get so flawed that it must be God's fault, so we blame Him. And the more we blame Him, the farther away from Him we get. Only when we see a God of Power, controlling and even using the chaos and flaws around and within us, do we have peace in our life.
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