“Putting together a bicycle”
When my brother was three he got his first bicycle for Christmas. Being much older I stayed awake with his father to put it together on Christmas Eve. My mother held the instructions. He and I began putting together pieces that seemed to fit and after about an hour we realized we were not doing it right. Mom, who had the instructions, kept trying to tell us what we were doing wrong, but we didn’t listen and it caused us to be up even longer, now having to disassemble the bike and then put it back together properly. Life is like that many times. We bypass reading the instructions of God’s Word and then wonder why we get ourselves into situations that require us to ‘back up and try again’