Some things we do seem to learn by osmosis, don't we? I might have a mental block about some things, but I didn't learn anything about God by osmosis. I was taught it and it was told me, but I didn't learn it. How could that be?
You are made in the image of God and for His glory.
What happens when children don't get a grasp of this truth early in life? You can't beat that truth into them? You can't just tell them about it. I really never got that truth.
Catechism is a framework of thinking
When the building blocks come together and the scriptures come together with the work of the Holy Spirit, that is when you get it. Until then, it is just a bunch of facts and figures. The highest calculus is simple math in comparison to God's reality, without the Holy Spirit's ministry of it into your soul. We must pray for enlightenment...We say, Lord, I don't get it. I don't see You in the stuff my parents and the elders are saying. I really want to know what these people are saying, but, without your Spirit there is just a vacuum of talk...Why do they get so excited about worship? Why do they listen and talk about God so very much? Show me, Lord the reality of Your purpose for my life. I really want to know that. What is in Your image? What means for Your glory? How can I stop my own self seeking? Those are the spiritual questions of life and I really do hope that your experience will be that God made these things very real to me in my earliest time and I had the privilege of walking with God from my earliest remembrance. Love, Mom.
