"You Mean We've Had This The Whole Time?"

My daughter, Elizabeth, is 16 months old. Recently, we "turned" her car seat around. Fortunately, my wife keeps up with the rules, but there is some deal about them facing backwards in the car seat until they reach a year old or 50 pounds or some measure like that. I'm not 100% sure what the deal is, but she told me it was time, so Elizabeth now faces forward in her car seat.

Today, since now she is facing forward, we put in a DVD while she and her mom went to run errands (I was home for lunch and got to see them off). As you can tell from the attached photo, she instantly became locked in to her Veggie Tales video. One time she glanced over at me, and I was able to read her mind. She looked at me as if to say, "You mean we've had this the whole time and you guys haven't been letting me watch DVD's?!?"

I wonder how many times we end up the same way spiritually. I wonder how many times God has incredible things in store for us, but we just miss it, or aren't ready, or haven't "grown up" enough spiritually for God to be able to show us more. I wonder how many times we are facing backwards spiritually, while God is waiting for us to mature so He can show us all the great things we can see facing forward. How many times are we missing our own Veggie Tales DVD?

In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. Hebrews 5:12-13