Last Saturday, most of our family was over at our house. The two youngest grandsons were bored and looking for something to do. Twelve-year-old Bennett had found a flat football and asked me if I had a pump for it. I answered, “I think there’s a blue one downstairs and a needle in the desk drawer.” Bennett and nine-year-old Greyson went down to look. I know how they enjoy snooping around in my basement because I used to snoop around in my grandfather’s basement when I was their age. So, after they went home that afternoon, I discovered the debris trail of their activities. From these photos, can you decipher what happened?!
As a kid, my dad had explained to me how you lick the needle to lubricate it before inserting (or attempting to insert) it into the football valve. Then dad told me to suspend the football by the needle while pumping it up because if you put it on the table, it would roll and snap off the needle. If you look at the blue tape, broken needle, and plyers needed to pick out the broken needle, that Is exactly what must have happened. That’s because the boys needed a mentor to tell them how to inflate the football. Hey, you need a mentor in your spiritual life too. Paul said in II Timothy 2:2, “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.” Older men teaching younger men, who grow up to teach other younger men. That is the way to learn how to grow spiritually ... and to learn how to inflate a football.
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