“John the Baptizer appeared…proclaiming a baptism of repentance” (Mark 1:4).
Someone has said that “The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell ‘God’ with the wrong blocks.” Some years ago, the News Media reported that a father had his four-year-old son baptized twenty-six times in three years. When he was asked by a reporter why he had done this, the father answered, “Very simple. Each new godfather was good for at least one loan.” The man is a good example, perhaps, of one of those bewildered people who live in their own “spiritual kindergarten,” trying to spell “God” with the wrong blocks. He didn’t deny God, but he tried to manipulate Him. And that is something we must all guard against in our prayer-life. When we come to God with our own pre-conceived packages of what He ought to do for us, we’re trying “to spell ‘God’ with the wrong blocks,” so to speak. We’re trying…
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