Sheer Genius
Posted Jul 22nd 2009by Ebenezer
I think my child is a genius. I mean, we may be talking the next Albert Einstein here. He is so smart and so young to be able to grasp the complex concepts I see him mastering every day. For example, the other day he picked up a comb and brought it to his head and mocked combing his hair. How is it possible that he understands what a comb is for? As if that isn’t proof enough, yesterday he was looking at a book and then got distracted with something else. I told him to “put that down” and then said, “Mathew, bring the book to mommy and I’ll read it to you.” And that unbelievably intelligent 13 month old walked right over the book, picked it up and brought it to me as he climbed in my lap.
He loves books and will almost always sit still enough to have one read as long as he can turn the pages. He especially likes books with “touch and feel” pages. I just can’t get over how smart he is and how much he understands. And then I catch myself wondering at his genius and laugh as I realize that 90% of other 13 month olds can do the same thing. It isn’t a high IQ (though I’m sure his is through the roof) that brings about this new knowledge but the natural progression of things.
But I still like to ponder the possibility that my child is ACTUALLY the smartest 13 month old in the history of the world. It is so easy to assume the best about our children and I hope that never changes. it makes me consider how God expects the best of me and how He believes I am the best, the most unique, the smartest, etc… and He thinks the same of you. Even when we fall short of our potential, God still reaches for the best in us. Still believes the best for us. Yet many of us struggle to believe Him period. Not believe in Him, but believe HIM. Believe His word and His promises. Believe that if we “delight ourselves in the Lord He will give us the desires of our hearts”.
I believe God takes great delight in each one of us and that He celebrates the smallest of our accomplishments.
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