Recently, I ran across a "fascinating list" that carried this intriguing title: "Great Truths About Life That Little Children Have Learned." Let me share a few of these "great truths" with you.
- No matter how hard you try you cannot baptize a cat.
- When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair.
- Never ask your 3-year-old brother to hold a tomato… or an egg.
- You can't trust dogs to watch your food for you.
- Don't sneeze when somebody is cutting your hair.
- School lunches stick to the wall.
- You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
- Never wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts… no matter how cute the underwear is.
Now, it is virtually certain that the children learned these "great truths" and came to these bold new insights after some dramatic eye-opening experience in their own personal lives. Can't you just see in your mind's eye,… some children trying to baptize a cat… and leaning full well from that experience that this is just not a good thing to do. The point is clear: A dramatic personal eye-opening experience can give us new insight, new perception, new vision.
On a much deeper level and on a much more positive level, that's precisely what we discover in this amazing story in John 9.