big britches

Kids seem to be very aware of things happening around them. In fact, my kids are so aware, they'll catch me off guard and say the WRONG thing at the right time - every time! Here are a couple of things I would appreciate if my kids were not so aware of:

At a very public place - "Dad you make $xxxx every week, right?"
At dinner - "Dad, didn't mom say she already salted that?"
In the car - "Dad, I think the speed limit is 45"
At home- "Dad, how come your name isn't on the chore list?"
Headed to Walmart - "Dad, you didn't shower today, did you?"

Kids seem to always want to be on the grown up side of things, even though they are only 8.

If you're following along with Verve's reading plan, today we read Matthew 12 and it started out like this:

At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath."

I laughed when I read this, because not only is it an extreme view of the sabbath (a weekly day of rest) but, because Jesus is the son of God.

How often do we tell God what to do? It seems we often get in this mode of defining the lines in the sand box that we cannot cross. Then we remind God of what we will not do and what He is supposed to do. When all along it was God who made the playground.

When we move to Miami to start a church to reach people far from God, please pray that we will always remain humble and remember who is really in charge.