Last night I shucked corn at my kitchen sink. That was unusual because I usually shuck corn out on the back porch or I have my kids shuck it out there. As I stood at the sink with the garbage can at my feet I had the revelation that "As an adult I CAN shuck corn in the house!" I am neat about it. I will clean up my mess. I will not rush or be sloppy with the shucking. As a child, my grandmother would shoo me outside to shuck the corn. I was messy with shucking-the silk would fly everywhere! I didn't fully clean up my mess after shucking- and there was always a mess! I would rush through the process and be sloppy with it cuz I wanted to get outside and play! I was a child-I SHOULD be outside shucking corn! I realized that in many areas of my life I am still thinking that I am that same child!!! I have somehow not thrown on the garments of being a new creation. Walking in new ways!!! God wants to entrust me with more...HE can trust me with more! I long to start shucking more corn inside the house! It's time!
Two Scriptures come to mind:
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
