Oh so true.
The problem is man can’t see the false from the true, because of his ego and false ideas.
The reason God sends His messengers to correct man and strives to keep him on the one straight path.
I think people have a “worship gene”, so to speak, and they are either going to find God or create a god, or gods, to exercise their need to worship. So this is where religion comes into play, to fulfill this need.
Now there is a responsibility which falls upon every individual to sort out truth from falsehood. We must “graze” on whatever grows out there in the pasture and determine for ourselves if it is what we are hungry for, and maybe it changes a bit according to our needs, but it would seem to me that what comes from God should satisfy our appetite.
Over time, however, we advance through stages. In the womb, we don’t have to worry about it, as food comes to us through the umbilical cord of our mother. Then we are born, and she gives us milk, and we stay close to her, occasionally chewing on what grows around us, but always coming back to her for milk for a couple of years.
Now some people are always going to want to hang around their mother and just drink milk, cause they think its easier than chewing grass, but for those who learn to graze on their own, they eventually find that they don’t need to go back to mama every time they are hungry. They may even wander over distant hills to find greener pastures.
All of these stages are valid in their own time and context, but if you examine the cow, even in the fetal stage, you see that there is more than just an umbilical cord attached. It is gradually forming teeth and hoofs, which indicate an eventual capacity to travel and chew new information (nourishment).
Now if cows could talk to each other, some of the older ones who have wandered over to distant pastures might come back and tell some of the younger ones not to be afraid to leave their mother. Their mother, wanting to protect them (and herself), may tell them “No… you stay here and drink milk!” That keeps her happy and makes the calf feel loved, but eventually, she needs to let them go and they also need to be let go, for their own good, and hers as well.
So what does this say about human beings, who have spiritual appetites and need spiritual food? Is it wrong to venture forth and look for green grass over the next hill? and the next? Should we be content only with mother’s milk? Are we to accept a pacifier instead? or are we to follow our hunger, which God instilled into us, and not content ourselves with the nourishment of an earlier stage, designed for a prior time, but not suited to the present.
This may be challenging to some, but then it is good to be challenged. Are we up to the challenge? Is it time to leave our mother and go off in search of those green pastures, or must we stay home, close to mama, and let her chew her cud and digest the grass for us and just give us milk. If so, what are our own teeth and hooves for?
I don’t know about you, but my own teeth have been chewing on quite a lot of grass in a lot of pastures for a long time, and the hay today tastes pretty fresh, and God just keeps sending rain and making new grass grow every springtime, and I think that He means for us to chew on it, digest the meaning, and keep on growing…
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