Milk to Meat

Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget came up with a theory which has significant evidence to support it (whether the theory is true or not is not the point of this blog, the fact that there is evidence to support it is), the theory is that in the Sensorimotor stage of life from 0-2 years old babies believe that objects cease to exist when they are hidden. Their minds are not developed enough to process the information correctly. During this stage of 0-2 they begin to realize this isn't true, but they begin with this belief. If you are reading this, most likely your mind is developed enough to realize that objects do not cease to exist when they are hidden from you. You have grown up out of this belief.

In our spiritual lives, it happens so often that we act like spiritual babies. When we see God working we believe He exists but then so quickly forget when we can't see Him. We act as if He doesn't exist when we can't see Him work or feel His presence. If this is us than in many areas of our lives we are quite possibly in the Sensonimotor stage in our spiritual lives. Once we have grown up in our faith and developed or renewed our minds to the truth, we realize that God exists whether we feel/see Him or not.

Mother Teresa was a great woman in the faith. She is said to have gone through 50 years without feeling the Lord's presence, yet she held on to the truth. She was not a spiritual baby. When something was hidden she held on to the fact the it still existed. God exists whether we see/hear/feel Him or not. Let's come out of spiritual infancy and believe the truth.