About Christianity

i was at the train station one evening, going back home from work. i was walking and reading my manga (japanese comics) along the platform when suddenly i heard a child screaming very loudly in a voice full of fear.

the little girl thought she was lost for a moment, in that train station. from the looks of it, she was around 3 years old, 5 at the most. with a very loud voice full of fear she kept screaming for her mother. everyone turned to look at her, but luckily her mother was nearby. let's not talk about how her mum let the kid wander away. the point is, the kid got terrified when she thought she was separated from her mother in a place which was not in her house.

question is, why did she get terrified? the answer is obvious. because her mother is the only one she knows will take care of her, who will protect her. nobody else could be trusted. in a foreign world which is not her home, in a world full of the unknown and strangers, it is logical that she will cling to her mother. all children did that. i remembered that me too, when i was a little kid, got terrified when i got separated from my parents. all children, by default, by instinct, cling to their parents, because their parents will lead the way, because their parents will take care of them. in their absence, a child cannot do anything at all. that is how dependent a child is of her parents.

moral of the story? in our own way, we are like little children of God. how surprising then, that when we got lost in the world of sin, we are not terrified. sometimes we even want to break away from God, from the Father who will lead the way, and protect us. we want to get lost, get trapped in a world of unknown and a world of dangers. we thought we became independent, and we didn't scream in fear when we got separated from the Father, we didn't run about looking for Him like the girl in the train station. we thought we were ok. but are we really ok? like the little kid, if our Father (in her case is her mother) is not there to take care of us, not because He failed us but because we insist on getting away from Him, who will protect us and help us in the world of darkness? who will lead us to the correct way?

i am not saying we have to scream like a little kid everytime we sin. what i am saying is we have to give the same seriousness or even more when we got lost spirtually compared to the little girl who got lost for that few seconds. in that scream i could clearly sense her fear and her terror as she desperately cried out for her mother. will we then, cry out to our Father when we get lost to allow Him to lead us? or will we think we are independent enough to walk on our own?