Children will be children

Sunday August 6th, Psalm 78: He split the Sea and they walked right through it; he piled the waters to the right and the left. He led them by day with a cloud, led them all the night long with a fiery torch. He split rocks in the wilderness, gave them all they could drink from underground springs; He made creeks flow out from sheer rock, and water pour out like a river. All they did was sin even more, rebel in the desert against the High God. Children will be children. It’s nice when the children get older and they begin to take care of themselves. Mark Twain marveled, tongue in cheek, at how smart his father had become as he got older. God had that same trouble with the children of God during the Exodus. God still has that same trouble with us. We all want a bit more because we feel a bit empty inside. God has not only given us more than we can imagine, but also through Christ, something to fill that emptiness in our soul.