The toddler that kept pushing

” Mommy, the door is locked.”, he whined as he tried pushing the door many times. His two feet were anchored on the ground while  his back laid  flatly against the door. This toddler kept pushing with all his might.

His Mom, in the kitchen,  did not believe him. She was so sure the room’s door was unlocked. She went over to find what the problem was. She smiled on what she saw.

” Son, can you spell the word  written on the door?”, she asked gently.

” P…U….L…L!”, he grinned exposing his lack of two front teeth.

Somehow, we exhibit that there is still that “toddler” in us. We push and push until we get tired. We get upset and become sour. There is no point of pushing doors when the instruction says you have to pull. Just as the carpenter of the door installed it in a specific way, so is our heavenly carpenter designs things to work in certain definite ways. The problem is we don’t read the writing on the door. Like the toddler, our back is against it.  

The precepts of the Lord are absolute. What are stipulated as  right and wrong could not be amended. The designer of life has the say. Let’s cooperate with Him. When he say, push,  let’s move forward. However, when he say pause, we better stop pushing.