So we have completed day one of Potty Training Boot Camp as we are calling it. Vicky took the day shift while I was at work and then I took over for a couple hours before Caleb went to bed. Caleb was exhausted before bed. He seemed so tired from the day of hard work. I was also pretty wiped out after the couple of hours on duty as the pee sergeant.
This is a fairly drastic change of behavior for Caleb. He is moving from pooping and peeing anytime he wants to having a place and time to do it. He is taking on, mostly we are making him, a whole new set of behaviors and patterns. He is doing a good job for day one. He even told me he had to go pee and then went pee. To me that is a good milestone for day one.
We are doing baptisms this weekend at Veritas. We are going to a park for our service, baptizing people in Lake Michigan, then having lunch at the park with everybody. As we are taking on this potty training adventure I am thinking about the people to get baptized this weekend. When we give our life to Jesus we are moving from living for ourselves to living for God. This should be a drastic change of behavior. My biggest trepidation about doing baptisms is that I have seen so many people get baptized and then walk away from Jesus. Truly giving our life to Jesus involves changing what our life is about. It should take effort. It is going to be hard. You should be tired. We all have patterns in our life shaped by a natural tendency to do things our way. Those patterns need to be put to death. Those things in our life should be changed because they don’t please God. Maybe we should all go through a LIfe Change Boot Camp. Why don’t we take more drastic measures to change our behaviors? Why are we still comfortable going in our pants and letting it sit there so to speak?
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