Parenting is a crash course in theology. You have someone made in your image who you love so desperately you can hardly stand it. But half the time they’re convinced you’re trying to make them miserable when everything you’re doing is actually for their ultimate good.

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Quite a long quote compared to what I usually post, but that’s why it doesn’t need much commenting. It says it all: how we view God is how little kids view their parents. We think God wants to control us for no reason when he is actually just protecting us from dangers we are not aware of.

We’ve all been in this situation, either as a child or as a parent (or both): a parent forbids a child something and the child starts either crying or questioning the reason behind this new restriction (and of course can’t understand it). Then the parent says something along these lines: “You don’t understand it now but you will understand it later – when you grow up.”

That’s why we can’t understand some of God’s rules, we are not mature enough, and we probably will never be mature enough in our lifetime. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have to follow these rules, as they are protecting us, we just don’t see it. By not following his rules we won’t be protected, and by the time we are struck by the consequence of our disobedience, it’s too late.