This blog post stinks. Literally. It is about diapers. They stink, they are expensive, they are something you don't want to forget when you leave home. I actually have 4 unofficially in diapers right now. My older 2 (ages 4 and 5) are toilet trained but we put them in one overnight. My almost 3 year old is temperamental and he will use the toilet if constantly reminded. My 1 year old is a big baby and wears the same size as the 3 year old. In fact they all will fit in size 6 diapers right now.
Diapers go by size, from newborn to size 6. Your baby is in newborn for a week it seems but that is the size everyone gives you at the baby shower. Then size 1 all the way to size 6. Then if still in diapers there are overnight bigger sizes and then one day we go back to diapers and that size depends on which Depends you buy.
Doesn't seem like much progress. Sadly when the church is doing the same thing someone should do something about it. When your "senior saints" are still wearing the same Size 3 diapers 20 years later they wore when they first got "Saved" at your first revival service, something is wrong.
Sooner or later they will outgrow them and you will know by the smell produced. It will soon be revealed they never bought larger and larger diapers as more was dumped on them in the church house. They were placed into grander and more prominent positions yet were not toilet trained and off the temper tantrums.
The other day the size 4's were not in the right spot. I bought what I thought was size 6 as the box looked the same, bright orange and Hippo on them. The size 4's were where the 6's usually were and it wasn't until I put it on during a diaper change that I noticed it was too small. If it just sat in the box I would not have known it was too small to cover the potential messes that diapers are supposed to absorb.
I believe God showed me a lesson in this.
Today's Christianity is proving to not be big enough to cover the big messes life is starting to throw at us. Before the catch on the church has been asleep because everything was going fine in the world for lost and saved alike. God's blessings on our country came to a screeching halt and now everyone is scrambling to figure out what to do. Unless they are too lulled asleep by the entertainment industry to notice.
It is becoming painfully obvious to everyone but the church that the church needs to wake up and put on the garments of Jesus not the world's too small diapers. The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. The worldly diapers of relgion contain the stink and mess until the load is too great. We mask the smell with baby powder and because everyone around us smells too we fit in and no one thinks it is us. But the whole world is going to hell because they can't smell Jesus on enough of us to see there is deliverance for the worlds messes.
The economy is crashing, the world is going to hell, Jesus is coming any day, and the devil is working overtime right now as he soon is going to be dethroned and out of a job. We go to church, glance at our bibles, give lip service to God, and flip on the Christian TV channel during halftime when we are being really spiritual, but that is the extent for most. Our prayer life is asking for the new flat screen TV to go on sale and for the raise to come through because we haven't ate steak in 4 days. Our churches are full of devils and false converts and they are comfortable sitting in our pews because they don't see much difference in us except our nice pressed suits. We have baby showers for the out of wedlock moms and coo and goo over their children who grow up without a father. Doesn't matter anyways, as most dads today are self absorbed, texting away like teen agers at bounce-magic and Chuck E Cheese when they are out with their family at a family outing, and looking at porn on the internet when they are away from them. The only difference between us and them is we have nice suits and ties over our soiled diapers and they have dirty clothes and ripped t shirts over their soiled diapers. If you get close enough, the lost and saved smell the same.
We also don't realize that our diapers are leaking and spilling over because the size is too small to cover today's world. We are supposed to obey the Bible and the truly saved will grow out of diapers pretty quick and go on to walk on their own. We can't smell the mess because everyone around us has soiled their diaper too. The solution is not to just add bigger diapers. The solution is to see our way of just pretending we are clean when we live like the world is not working. We don't need to just add Fabreeze and baby powder and change to Depends and change our spiritual diapers more frequent. It is time for the true Christians to rise up and see there is something wrong because the world around us is not getting holier. We stink like the world and the world is getting stinkier and stinkier. We can shout praises to God all we want and sing loudly and come boldly but God sees we have never been potty trained and we stink in the nostrils of ALL MIGHTY GOD. He wants us to come to him to get clean, but we think everything is wonderful. Our churches are full and people are rocking. Our offerings are up and people are clapping and tears are shed. But where is the agony over sins? Why are we not fed up with the stink coming out of us? We think the smell is coming from the lost sitting next to us, but that smell comes right from us but we think we smell sweet.
The church needs to repent and wake up first.
Then we will have something to bring this lost and dying world. Until then we are just like the stinky soiled 3 year old who just pooped his pants and is comfortable playing in it because he has the Huggies little Movers. We are comfortable yet stink just like the world. And we turn our noses at the lost and are content to sit in our soiled diapers until the rapture.
Oh that something would wake up the church! My fear is even missing the rapture won't be enough.
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