"When I go back to little"

That phrase, "when I go back to little" has been repeated several times around this house lately. With Maddie being younger and now babysitting younger kids, Eli comments every now and then how when he goes back to little he will do this or wear that or be such and such. I smile every time I hear him say it.

Oh how I wish I could take him back to little! My big boy is growing so fast and in all honesty we will never be able to go back to those days of Eli being little. He's only getting bigger. All by babies are growing and developing and changing! I know that's the idea and I should be grateful that they are developing well and growing normally, but it's so hard not to want to keep them little.

NO, I don't suppose my Eli will ever "go back to little", but I'm thankful he thinks about it and knows that there are things he has left behind in his "baby years".

The Bible says, in I Corinthians 13:11, "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." So when we are a new creature in Christ we put away childish things. We change, those things are behind us, not to be revisited, but perhaps to remind us of our past. Our lives without Christ and all the sin that He has saved us from.

How about you? Do you ever contemplate your future or do you think about going "back to little"? As Eli reflects on his time of "being little", we too can reflect on our time before Christ and then Praise Him for His Amazing Grace.