A couple friends of mine shared a story they heard from a pastor. The pastor told them this. One day, he and his younger daughter set out to assemble her new bicycle. At first, the pastor was dedicated to the task. Get it done. Get it done efficiently. It would have been much easier to put it together by himself. At a certain point, he realized that putting the bicycle together wasn’t the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal was to spend time with his daughter.
After finishing the bicycle, his daughter rode off, circled the neighborhood, and announced that she and her father had assembled her brand new bicycle! Can you picture it? Can you see the joy and the admiration? In this real life parable, we are the young child and God is the father. He could do everything without us. Instead, He enjoys spending countless hours with us, putting bicycles together.
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