‘So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin living in me.’ Romans 7:17
It started with a call from our grandson’s preschool. There was a very serious situation they needed to discuss with our oldest daughter. When could she get there?
You can imagine my daughter’s response! Worried that Carter could be ill or worse, Jennifer told her boss she was leaving, threw all her stuff in her car, and raced to the daycare. Parking the SUV, she grabbed her purse and ran inside.
And found our boy laughing and playing with all the other babies in his class. She turned to the lead teacher who led her to a quiet corner of the classroom.
“We have a problem,” the woman said, frowning.
Over the last week, the teachers noticed that several of the other babies’ pacifiers had gone missing. They didn’t think much of it at first. Anyone who’s ever had a baby knows how easy it is to lose a pacifier. But on this particular day, a little girl who was extremely attached to her paci was in the class. One minute, she was happy as a lark, then suddenly, she screamed. Her paci was nowhere in sight.
That’s when one of the teachers noticed our boy crawling toward the toy box, a pacifier in his hand. After further investigation, they found not only the little girl’s, but several others stuffed in the corner beneath the toys!
My nine-month-old grandboy was a pacifier thief!
Carter’s ‘crime’ reminded me how we are all born with a sinful nature. He’s too young to know right from wrong, yet he chose to take something that wasn’t his. It hadn’t been taught to him. He came up with the idea all by himself, but how?
Since the fall of man, we’ve all been born with the compulsion to sin. It’s imprinted in us almost like DNA. Which means we need a Savior. No matter how good of a person you try to be, you live in sin. The only way to be reconciled with our Lord is through the blood of Jesus Christ.
