Romans 3:23
"...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God..."
Joash decided to up our challenge as his parents at 3 weeks old. These days, he refuses to go to sleep unless he is being carried or nursed. We have done everything that could make him comfortable: changed his diapers, rubbed some Chinese medicinal oil on his tummy to ease gas pains, fed him well with breast-milk and formula, nursed him to sleep, rocked him to sleep, put him on our bed etc... He will simply wake up 5 minutes later crying to be carried or soothed whenever we put him down. This happens throughout the day. We hardly get any rest and neither does he, which is worrying.
Amidst the hardship, I began to be reminded of the fallen nature of mankind. We are all born without any regards for God or others. We are simply self-centered and whether intentionally or unintentionally, we bring harm to others and ourselves. We cause the very people taking care of us grief and severe sleep deprivation.
Something else that Joash does regularly makes me all the more convinced about the very nature of our sinfulness. He would be crying for milk and would try to meet his own need for food by his own efforts such as squirming which makes it difficult to carry him and sucking his mittens, effectively blocking his mouth when I try to feed him. What's more, he would be so frantic that he would use his arms to push against my chest when I try to nurse him, sabotaging the process of bringing his mouth to the very source of food.
That is simply the exact way we act in our relationship with God. We try so hard to meet our own needs for love and security when God designed us to be dependent upon Him and He has promised to provide for us abundantly. More often than not, our methods end up bringing us further from true fulfillment and eventually cause harm to ourselves. It is only when we surrender to the sovereignty of God that we can truly be satisfied.
God has already provided a perfect way to cleanse our sinfulness and return to His holy presence through our Lord Jesus Christ. Why are we still running away?
"...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God..."
Joash decided to up our challenge as his parents at 3 weeks old. These days, he refuses to go to sleep unless he is being carried or nursed. We have done everything that could make him comfortable: changed his diapers, rubbed some Chinese medicinal oil on his tummy to ease gas pains, fed him well with breast-milk and formula, nursed him to sleep, rocked him to sleep, put him on our bed etc... He will simply wake up 5 minutes later crying to be carried or soothed whenever we put him down. This happens throughout the day. We hardly get any rest and neither does he, which is worrying.
Amidst the hardship, I began to be reminded of the fallen nature of mankind. We are all born without any regards for God or others. We are simply self-centered and whether intentionally or unintentionally, we bring harm to others and ourselves. We cause the very people taking care of us grief and severe sleep deprivation.
Something else that Joash does regularly makes me all the more convinced about the very nature of our sinfulness. He would be crying for milk and would try to meet his own need for food by his own efforts such as squirming which makes it difficult to carry him and sucking his mittens, effectively blocking his mouth when I try to feed him. What's more, he would be so frantic that he would use his arms to push against my chest when I try to nurse him, sabotaging the process of bringing his mouth to the very source of food.
That is simply the exact way we act in our relationship with God. We try so hard to meet our own needs for love and security when God designed us to be dependent upon Him and He has promised to provide for us abundantly. More often than not, our methods end up bringing us further from true fulfillment and eventually cause harm to ourselves. It is only when we surrender to the sovereignty of God that we can truly be satisfied.
God has already provided a perfect way to cleanse our sinfulness and return to His holy presence through our Lord Jesus Christ. Why are we still running away?
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