Growing Process

Growing Process

Images flashes through my mind during worship last week

From the day we are born to 1 years old - Fully dependent on our parents to feed us.

1 - 3 years old - Fully dependent on our parents for what we need to grow and develop. We listens to everything they say and tries to catch and learn something.

4 - 6 years old - We spend most of our time with our parents still, despite knowing more friends. Believes in everything they tell us without any doubts.

6 - 12 years old - Still spend almost half our time with our parents. Starts to apply everything we know and learn from home into our relationship with friends and in dealing with school work etc. beginning to doubt some of the things that our parents will tell us, as we interact with other children with different sets of values. goes through tough patches in life due to our doubts and difference from people.

13 - 18 years old - Hardly spend time with our parents, going out with our friends. Mindsets are formed base on how we handle the different patches of life. gaining of knowledge and experiences.

19 - mid 20s - Hardly spend time with our parents, busy learning to manage life on our own, finding jobs and making a living with the knowledge and experiences we have.

mid 20s onwards - Barely even make time home for dinner after marriage, fully dependent on ourselves and the wisdom and experiences we have.

This is what usually happens, and it just seems like what is it.

But what it seems to be, maybe not be what it should be.

Bring this back to the context of our walk with God, many people begin to become independent of God when they have gain experiences through the years. Stopped leaning and depending on God for guidance as much as before.  Not spending as much time to listen to Him as they would before, depending on their self gained wisdom through the years. As 2009 started, let us not just move with what it seems to be, let's go back to the basics of what it should be, spending time with God, asking Him for the directions. Do not get me wrong, Yes, we got to plan, but it is He who directs the path.