As I was getting ready to come to church today, I was helping my son to get a bath -- and quite frankly, he didn’t want to have a bath, especially because he couldn’t sit and play in the tub for awhile. And so he resisted and complained and made it difficult -- but we struggled through it and got him clean for the most part. As we finished up, I told him to stand up and get out so we could get him dried off and dressed for church; to which he responded, "I Can’t!"
-- I replied, "what do you mean, you can’t?"
-- He scowled at me and said, "Daddy, I Can’t!!"
-- Now unfortunately, we’ve been through this routine before so I knew how to respond. "You mean -- You Don’t Want To, right?" To which he begrudgingly nodded. It wasn’t that he "couldn’t" get out, he "didn’t want" to get out of the bathtub -- he wanted to stay in and play for awhile.
And I couldn’t help but think that this is so similar to the way that we respond to God’s call. He asks us to do
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