Some of you have seen my darling daughter, Elaina. Others of you who are brave enough to venture into the nursery have seen Elaina the Terrible. Her cute features contort, her laughing disposition is clouded and her soft voice becomes a raging roar as she lets out cries at seeminly unnatural volumes.
I want to tell you a secret now. do you know the only way to silence that child is to do something -- unnatural?
Rather than covering one's ears to save what remains of one's hearing and running the other way, one has to bring her up into one's arms right beside one's ear and gently whisper into her ear soothing her almost instantly.
Do you know that is the very same thing God did for us when we were crying out in a lifestyle of rebellion against Him?