Boys and Mud

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For the past few weeks, our children have enjoyed playing in the backyard and digging in the dirt almost daily. All the children love playing outside, especially the boys.

This week it has been raining, so they have not been outside to play hardly at all. Boys, rain, and dirt equals mud. My boys love mud, my living room floor, not so much.

Two of our boys ventured out to play in the rain this morning. One was in shorts and neither one of them bothered to put on shoes, they just went outside and danced in the rain. What started out as a perfectly harmless adventure with something pure, turned into a disaster pretty quickly.

Dancing in the rain led to the boys playing in buckets of water that had collected. That led to dirt being dumped into the buckets of rain water. Then they started pouring the buckets of dirty, muddy, rain water down a make shift ramp and all over the ground. Before long, they were slinging mud. They played for awhile and had their fun. It didn’t take long before they grew tired of this excitement and succumbed to the cold. They were completely covered in mud and needing a nice hot bubble bath.

I couldn’t help but see the parallel to sin. You add in just a little bit of dirt to the pure water and you end up with a bucket full of mud. Then you play a little more with sin and spread the mud around. Before you know it, you are covered in mud and so is everyone around you, and you are in much need of a nice hot, soapy bubble bath (aka Jesus).

We have an such an important job to do as moms of boys to teach them right from wrong and show them what things the Bible calls sin.

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