John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Continuing on with comparing natural birth with spiritual rebirth, let us grow up and leave the terrible twos, shall we?

Now we are out on the playground. We are mixing it up with other children our age, our spiritual maturity. We are not allowed to play with the older kids. They might accidently hurt us. Maybe not accidently. Older kids play rough. They are bigger, stronger and capable of inflicting wounds.

So let us deal with being in a peer group. We are all equal on the playground. Competition isn’t so much one on one as it is in where we came from. “My dad is ….” Now it is all about MY DAD.

It doesn’t occur to us that our spiritual dad is also their spiritual dad. He is after all my dad. It is at this very moment when we start seeing the differences in denominations. We are Catholic. We are Baptist. We are Methodist. We are Pentecostal. We are all on the same playground, we are all peers, but suddenly now because He is my dad, He is better than your dad.

Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Desolation is the aim of the enemy. Here we are on the playground of spiritual growth and we are at play. We have been under the protective umbrella of our spiritual family, what do we know of the enemy and his waring ways? We do not see the enemy at work, we see playmates who say his dad can beat up my dad.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

What did we know about wrestling, we just want to play.

“Dad. Jimmy isn’t playing nice.” What can you do?