thoughts

Yesterday I was walking down Hlavna going to Tesco and I saw two ladies, one of them carrying a kid about 12 months old. Then kid proceeded to spit/throw up on his mom's shirt and the two ladies stopped to clean up the mess, and also to laugh and talk about how cute it was that he threw up on one of them.

Now, maybe you have kids and this is cute to you, but to me, it's kinda gross. But then I started thinking about how God views us that way. When we become new believers we do so many things that are still disgusting and painful. The whole time God just looks at us like a father and cleans up our mess and even extends a little grace by admiring our effort to just live life with him.

This was all good and well until I took that thought further and considered what happens when we grow up. Well, we stop throwing up...on purpose, at least. And why do we stop doing things that are disgusting and inappropriate? Simply because that is what is expected of a mature person.

And so it is in our walk with God. As we begin to grow up and learn more about God, He asks us to get rid of things that, in reality, are ridiculous; those things in our life which break fellowship with God, sin.

All this to say that I've been realizing more and more the sin in me that God wants to remove. He's showing me the things in my life that are disgusting and not what He wants. But to be honest, I often whine and complain about the fact I have to grow up and act like a "mature" Christian. But once again, the reality of this life with God is that I must move forward. If I truly belong to Him, I must remove those things which grieve Him. It's hard, really hard, but I think it's worth it in the end.