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| When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11 |
Hear we are again with another of Pastor's metaphors.
On Sunday night, two weeks ago he had a small teddy bear sitting on the pulpit.
He was exclaiming on how people hold on to their sin for comfort as you would do a teddy bear.
He was saying how children have teddy bears for comfort and we need to not be as children, but put away childish things and become a man. We need to put away our sins and become men/women of God.
He kept saying that we need to throw away, get rid of, or put away these teddy bears in our lives in order to make heaven our home, how can we go there still hanging on to our childish things.
I cannot give it justice to how Pastor preached this, it really and truly was meaningful.
When we got home, Julian slept with this on his mind. Yes, you got it...
the next morning he came to me and said he had packed up all his teddy bears and threw them away.
He was ready and willing to give up his teddy bears to make heaven his home =')
Of course I had to contain my composer and explain to him that Pastor didn't actually mean 'TEDDY BEARS' but that he was referring to sin... it took awhile, but Julian understood and retrieved his teddy bears from the garbage.
How willing he was to give up something so precious to him...
all because he wanted to make heaven his home and be with Jesus...
What a lesson to learn from this child about putting away childish things.
