Children are Brainy

Aren’t children something these days? They know everything and are so cute about putting adults in their place, me anyway. They keep me without words and without any response. They leave me thinking, “where did that come from?” They are so unnaturally knowledgeable, and their behavior is so unmanageable, be it for the good or bad. It is no surprise that professional staff are becoming younger everyday as well. Those professional staff manage our life as employers, doctors, advisers, psychologists, community leaders, politicians, etc. And they are so extraordinarily knowledgeable and skillful at what they do. It is rare for me to run across a grey-haired person who is given responsibility for managing some aspect of my life. When I see Isaiah, I will let him know how right he was when he said on God’s behalf, “I will make mere youths their officials, children will rule over them.” Isaiah 3:4

From what I’ve seen, those with astoundingly uncanny knowledge and skills are at least in the middle-class of the social scale. I have a cousin, nephew, brother, sister, and niece who all fit that description. Between them, they have 11 children through their interracial marriages, and their children are just as uncannily clever. It follows that I don’t try to be insightful, fact-filled, etc. in my futile effort to join them. Joining them is about as impossible as changing my skin color. I’m living on SNAP benefits, so obviously I don’t have those middle-class skill sets. I’ve been in situations where I’ve attempted leadership and tried to be an influencer, but it was an unruly hardship. Here, Isaiah will say it for me, “A man will seize one of his brothers in his father’s house, and say, “You have a cloak; you be our leader, take charge of this heap of ruins!” But in that day, he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house, do not make me the leader of the people.” Isaiah 3:6-7

By necessity this has to be my attitude; “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1

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