Adventure Settling

After five days housebound due to the snow, I took the girls to our local children's museum. Sometimes you just HAVE to splurge in order to keep your sanity, you know? And I was about to lose mine. Anyway, the most interesting thing occurred when we got there. In the lobby of the museum was an airplane. Small enough to fit in the lobby, big enough for the kids to climb on top of and inside. My girls LOVED it. They ran right over to it, climbed inside and were off on some high-flying adventures. Had I remembered my camera I would insert picture here. (Unfortunately, I was so desperate to get out of the house I left without said camera. Hey, I was lucky I remembered the girls!)

What was interesting was that the airplane had so captured the girls' attention they did not see all that lie beyond the lobby. There were rooms and rooms of fun just waiting for exploring but they could have cared less. All they wanted was to play on the plane. Several times I asked if they wanted to see more, but every time they said no. In my mind, I kept thinking what a waste of money this was if they never left the lobby. (even with my coupon!) Twenty minutes later we were STILL in the lobby. We could have gone home at that point and the girls would have been satisfied. They would have felt satisfied and I would have felt short-changed; not for myself, but for THEM. Because I knew how much they would have missed.

Thankfully, I finally was able to coax them out of the lobby and into the rest of the museum and hours of fun were had by all. But you know what all this reminded me of? Us. With God. We settle for so little and He has SO much more for us. We are excited about just GOING to the "museum". (Not a bad thing at all.) And when we get there, we are thrilled at the first thing we experience. We love it. Its so fun. And we get stuck. What should have been just a teaser of all to come, ends up becoming our sole focus and we don't want to go any further. God keeps asking if we're ready for more, to see the rest. And we start getting annoyed that He's interrupting our fun. Can't He see how good we have it? How satisfied we are with things right now? Why in the world would we want to go over there? It's dark over there...and we're quite content right here, thank you very much.

Can you see the picture? This could be about your spiritual growth, a ministry the Lord is leading you to, or just life on planet earth. As I watched my girls enjoy ALL that the museum had to offer, I reflected on this important parallel in my own spiritual life. What about you? Any thoughts?