Have You Ever Been A Parent Waiting, Watching And ...

Have you ever been a parent waiting, watching and helping your child to take that first step or two without holding on to some thing. You brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles get in on this too. My daughter started walking by holding onto a coffee table when we lived in Jacksonville, Florida. When she started doing that I was so happy. But when she got to the end of the table she would stop. I would entice her with all kinds of things to get her to take that first step and come to me. Most of the time she would stand there with one hand on the table and wave at me with the other. One day I finally got her to let go and take three steps to get to me. Cathy and I were so happy! I picked her up in my arms and held her so tight. Cathy joined us and we all three hugged each other and jumped around.

Friends that first step experience is our Salvation experience. The table can be our help or our hindrance. We have to let go of it and step out. When we do and take that first step we have repented. When God reaches out and takes us we have been justified. AND God spends the rest of our life helping us get up when we sit down or fall. Then we eventually learn to pick those tiny feet up and run with the wind.