My wife is a great one for admiring babies. She’ll walk across a crowded restaurant or down a crowded aisle to fawn over one. I understand; she can’t help it. Babies evoke a visceral reaction in most women. Babies are cute, cuddly and most of the time they smell good too. As long as they belong to someone else, what’s not to like?
But, step back far enough to let a little rational thought in and the misconception is shattered. Take it from me, that chubby, pink bundle is trouble. It will learn to lie as soon as it can talk. It will steal as soon as it is mobile enough to get away with it. It will cheat as quickly as it learns the rules. Tarry too long changing a diaper and it will urinate on you. Put it down in a group of its own kind; it will scratch, bite and pinch everyone around.
Don’t be deceived cuteness is only a disguise; within beats a heart of evil. Well did David say: “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” Man is a natural born liar, rebel and cheat. If one tells you he was born gay, a kleptomaniac, or a murderer, believe him; it may be the only truth to come from his mouth. Yet, there is help for Man.
“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”
If you were born bad (and you were)---be born again!
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