Emphasis Preaching Journal

I visited a newborn baby in the hospital. It is easy to get excited over the unlimited potential that a newborn baby has. All of life is before it! If only that opportunity were mine again! I looked back on the numerous ways I squandered the rich life that God entrusted me with. Perhaps, I thought, this baby will figure out how to get life right and not mess it up like the rest of us. But then those cuddly, potential-filled newborns grow up. The older they get, the less cute they seem to be. They vomit at inopportune times. They are sassy to us. They have runny noses and dirty faces.