grandma's chuckles - Out of the Mouths of Babes . . .

Don't you just love it when your sweet grandchildren say something profound?  Something which gets your attention and makes you wonder how they ever came up with what they said? Something which you, of course, had to share on facebook?!!! Something which makes you laugh each time you think about it?

My sweet, rascal middle grandson did this one Wednesday eight years ago when he was four. My grandsons tended to spend time after school with me until their poppa and I took them to the children's club at our church on Wednesdays. Before we left, he was watching Phineas and Ferb, Night of the Living Pharmacist - in this episode, Dr. Doofenshmirtz had an inator which, of course, malfunctions by making copies of Dr. Doofenshmirtz which then ends up turning pretty much everyone in the Tri-State Area into a "pharmacist" each time one of the copies touched a person. My grandson thought this was extremely funny and so of course he had to run around pretending he was turned into a "pharmacist". At one point one of the "pharmacists" touched Dr. Doofenshmirtz, but since he was the "original", he didn't turn into a copy "pharmacist". 

My grandson was watching this and said; "You can't become what you already are." I looked at him, surprised to hear him say this - he was only four and then just laughed. While he was commenting on how Dr. Doofenshmirtz couldn't become a copy of himself, there was something very "profound" about what he said. We can't become something we already are.

As my grandsons grow up, I want them to know this in relation to who they are in Christ. I want them to know they can trust God to do what He said He will do and they do not have to wear themselves out trying to earn what God has given them as a gift. So, while my grandson's "profound" statement makes me laugh, it also reminded me of a very important truth.