You Haven’t Figured It Out Yet?

 

 You can fool kids pretty easily. I think back to some of the tales I believed when I was a kid, I cannot believe I was that gullible.  Maybe it is the lack of experience. Maybe it is just ignorance. Maybe it's just because we really want to believe. For whatever reason, when we are little, we will believe some pretty fantastic things even when it doesn’t make a lot of sense.

 But at some point, we grow up and figure it out. Or do we?

 In 1^st Peter 1:14, we read, “As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance”. There is a time when we can be excused for believing in things because we were ignorant. Our desire overrules our thinking. In doing so, we live very spiritually immature lives. But as we mature, we must not let our lust rule us. We have to wise up and realize that just because we want to believe something, it doesn’t make it so.

 Too many folks wallow in their ignorance. That is, it is not that they don’t know, it is that they don’t want to know. Refusing to see the truth is different than not being able to. Instead of pretending and going along with it, we need to grow up.