There are stages that children go thru. I have heard that it is possible for growth to be a daily experience and yet each stage, each step is good in itself. Enoch is developing object permanance. It is good that he is learning to accept that mommy and daddy continue to exist when we step out of view. It is a sign of growing up.
Enoch is beginning the early stages of trust.
The spiritual ramafications cannot elude me. I find they rise up to ask their own questions. I hear God's gentle nudge and tender question. Yet at times I fear what the answer suggests.
Implications of growth are played out in Enoch's looking for the object that has disappeared. He expects it to reappear. He expects to find the ball in my other hand.
What does my tendency to display a lack of spiritual object Permanance say about the level of spiritual maturity? Is it enough to trust God when He shows Himself large and powerful in demonstration and miraculous intervention? Or is it instead a sign of spiritual immaturity that needs signs and wonders to believe? I used to think Gideon a great story because God made his will clear. And it is. But it is also a story of how God stoops low to meet His children where they are.
What is my response to God's disappearance? To His silence? To His stillness? Do I look expectantly for where I expect Him to manifest Himself next because I know He is there even if I can't see Him? Or do I act like Israel and plot my way back to Egypt along the nearest highway?
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