“Why don’t you try one more time?” the exasperated carnival worker said, offering the boy a final chance.
He was playing the lucky ducky carnival game. The game where a bunch of rubber ducks are floating in a tub and you pick up a duck, turn it over, and if it has a special mark then you win a prize.
It began when the boy and his mother stopped at the booth and she paid the money for him to play. He picked up the first duck and turned it over, it was blank.
The worker returned the duck to the pond and told him to try again. He chose the same duck the second time. The mother and the carnival worker both chuckled, after all it was kind of cute. The mother pointed out that he chose the same duck as before and that he should pick a different one next time.
The worker returned the duck to the pond and told him to try again. To everyone’s surprise he chose the same duck for the third time. It wasn’t cute anymore. The mother asked why he chose the same duck when he knew it wasn’t a prize winner. He had no answer.
The worker graciously offered the boy another chance. But this time she placed the duck on the table beside the tub. He would have to pick a different one. That is when she said “Why don’t you try one more time?”
Looking at the ducks floating in the water, he carefully reached out his hand and grabbed the duck from off the table, the one he had chosen the last three times. At this point the red faced mother dragged the little boy away.
We may say the child was too small to understand. Surely if he was older he wouldn’t keep turning over the same duck. But then again, how many grown ups do the same thing? We’ve outgrown the lucky ducky and now have more sophisticated ducks. Just as the boy, we continue to turn over the same ducks while expecting different results. He turned over the same duck out of innocence, but we turn over the same duck out of stubbornness.
Stubbornness will get you into trouble. The Lord detests it! 1 Samuel 15:23 calls it sin. Jeremiah 7:24 describes stubbornness “But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, the followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.” Did you catch that? Stubbornness leads you backward to the same old duck, not forward.
Are you stubbornly turning over the same duck expecting different results? That is stubbornness. It is time to choose a new duck!
He was playing the lucky ducky carnival game. The game where a bunch of rubber ducks are floating in a tub and you pick up a duck, turn it over, and if it has a special mark then you win a prize.
It began when the boy and his mother stopped at the booth and she paid the money for him to play. He picked up the first duck and turned it over, it was blank.
The worker returned the duck to the pond and told him to try again. He chose the same duck the second time. The mother and the carnival worker both chuckled, after all it was kind of cute. The mother pointed out that he chose the same duck as before and that he should pick a different one next time.
The worker returned the duck to the pond and told him to try again. To everyone’s surprise he chose the same duck for the third time. It wasn’t cute anymore. The mother asked why he chose the same duck when he knew it wasn’t a prize winner. He had no answer.
The worker graciously offered the boy another chance. But this time she placed the duck on the table beside the tub. He would have to pick a different one. That is when she said “Why don’t you try one more time?”
Looking at the ducks floating in the water, he carefully reached out his hand and grabbed the duck from off the table, the one he had chosen the last three times. At this point the red faced mother dragged the little boy away.
We may say the child was too small to understand. Surely if he was older he wouldn’t keep turning over the same duck. But then again, how many grown ups do the same thing? We’ve outgrown the lucky ducky and now have more sophisticated ducks. Just as the boy, we continue to turn over the same ducks while expecting different results. He turned over the same duck out of innocence, but we turn over the same duck out of stubbornness.
Stubbornness will get you into trouble. The Lord detests it! 1 Samuel 15:23 calls it sin. Jeremiah 7:24 describes stubbornness “But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, the followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.” Did you catch that? Stubbornness leads you backward to the same old duck, not forward.
Are you stubbornly turning over the same duck expecting different results? That is stubbornness. It is time to choose a new duck!
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