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A
Logical Question
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For the wisdom of the world is
foolishness to God. 1 Corinthians 3:19
My niece, Kim, was three years old. Her sisters, Ronda and
Julie, were five and seven. They lived with their parents, Loren and Penny, and
grandparents, whom we called Mom and Dad, on a Kansas wheat farm where they also raised
cattle.
One
Sunday morning Dad noticed that one of the cows was about ready to birth her
calf, and from past experience he thought she might need help. So he closed her
in a stall in the barn. Then the family went to church.
After
church they hurried home to see how the cow was doing. Sure enough, she was in
hard labor in the barn. So Dad and Loren quickly changed clothes and started
out the door to the barn.
“Can
we go, Daddy?” asked little Ronda.
Looking
at Penny, he said, “What do you think?”
“They
have to learn sometime,” she said. “It might as well be now as later, I guess.”
“Okay,
let’s go then,” said Loren, “but you have to stay out of the way so the old cow
doesn’t kick you.”
The
birthing process was a long, arduous ordeal. After forty-five minutes of
huffing, puffing, and using pulling chains, they finally smiled as the little
white-faced, spindly-legged calf was born. Dad and Loren, not to mention the
cow, were exhausted.
The
two men leaned against the barn wall to catch their breath, wipe the sweat off
their faces, and admire the wobbly calf. It was at that precise moment that
little Kim, peering between the rails of the stall, posed a three-year-old’s
logical question.
"Well,
Daddy,” she said seriously, “just how’d that thing get in there anyway?”
Now,
if you think Loren was out of breath before, that innocent question really
caused him to suck air. But it was, after all, a logical question from a
three-year-old viewpoint, don’t you think?
I’m
sure our childlike questions to God often sound foolish to him too. We should
ask anyway!
Father, I pray that you will give
me wisdom for living. Help me to follow your guidelines for happiness and to
glorify you by the way I live. I love you, Father. Amen.
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