You may have
seen the commercial in which the little kid asks his mom that question. He
asked her why her stomach was big and she told him there was a baby in it and
that is when he asked the question. I am not sure what the advertisement was even
for but this part got my attention. I remember a story in the Readers Digest
once where a lady had said her 4 year old son asked the same question and she
told him she swallowed a watermelon seed! The next week she had a Tupperware
party and one of her guests was pregnant. When she introduced her to her son
the little boy said, “I know what you did!”
Telling the
truth is hard to do sometimes isn’t it? We calculate the question and try to
determine how to answer based on the person’s ability to receive the answer, or
our fear of repercussions if we tell them something they may not want to hear!
I know many people who do not use tact when answering sensitive questions and
just spill it out. I, on the other hand, use too much tact sometimes. Most of
us remember the famous line Jack Nicholson blurted out on the witness stand in
the movie A Few Good Men: “You can’t handle the truth!” I have told some people
the truth who did not believe it and I am sure you have too. There are those
who say there is no absolute truth; but there is. I think the biggest problem
Jesus had to deal with was getting people to trust in the truth. One of them
told Him, [1]“We know that you are a man of integrity and
that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.” Now my
question would be the same as the one Jesus asked, “Then why don’t you believe
Me?”
They knew it
was the truth but did not want to believe it by choice. It is one thing to be
uncertain of an answer but still another to be unwilling to accept it. The
little boy did not understand how the baby got inside his mom but he believed
her anyway because he never said, “Aw, ain’t no way!”
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