Wait a Minute!

Isn’t funny that children show us the way God looks at us?

For example, you tell your child to wait until you get back up stairs from washing clothes in the basement to help you make a cake. However, when you return back upstairs you see flour on the walls, eggs on the floor, and half of the bag of sugar in the bowl. The first thing that comes to your mind is “Didn’t I just tell you to wait a minute so you can help me make the cake? Now you have a big mess that I’m going to have to clean!” The child just innocently says that they thought they were helping you. Imagine how God feels when we want immediate results right now to something that we have been asking for. We think we are “helping Him out” when all we had to do was wait a little longer. When we try to do it ourselves, it creates a big mess that we, inevitably, need God’s help to clean it up. He may discipline us for not listening, but “He disciplines those he loves, and disciplines those he accepts as a child*” and “His anger is only for a moment, but his favor is for a lifetime*” just like parents. So next time you are about to discipline your children, think about that last time God had to discipline you and try not to make the same mistake twice.

By: Serenity

*Disciplines…..Hebrews 12:6
*Anger…….Psalm 30:5