Don't you wish you could still do this?
It would no longer be cute, of course, but still...

Really, don't you just want to kiss this face, drool and all?

Much less attractive in an adult!

Look at these rolls!

My rolls? Uh, no.

Babies get away with things that adults never could.

And this is good. We expect babies to be absorbed in their own wants and needs exclusive of everyone around them. They're babies. They don't think of others because they simply can't. They need all our time and attention and how adorable is that - when you're a baby. Babies, in the natural course of events, will grow.

But spiritual growth is another matter. 1 Peter 2:2 tells us that we should be like 'newborn babies' and 'crave pure spiritual milk' so that we might 'grow up' in our salvation. We are not meant to remain as children (Eph 4:14) but spiritual growth is not automatic like physical growth. We have to want to grow, we have to decide to grow, and we have to make an effort and persist in growing. As God calls us to follow Him, we must leave something behind - our childish ways, our own way of thinking, our self absorbtion, our pacifiers, our diapers, our bottles, our doll babies...

Change starts with your mind. the way you think determines the way you feel and the way you feel determines the way you act. If we're to have the mind of Christ and think the way Christ thinks (Phil 2:5) then we must stop thinking immature thoughts and start thinking maturely. Because the core of the Christian lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

All for Him,

Missy

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