![]() You can’t gain mastery of a skill if you never attempt to do it by yourself. But that is part of the learning process. Yes, you probably won’t know what you’re doing at first. Canned studies, a “mommy” breathing down your neck, showing you how to do it, or doing it for you, gets in the way of what you can learn – what God can uniquely tailor to you as an individual – when you do it yourself. We need to learn this concept when it comes to individual Bible study. Why don’t we see that as unhealthy in our spiritual lives, in our Bible study lives? We would take him to the doctor to find out what’s wrong. ![]() If a child never moved into the “I do it myself” stage we would consider that child unhealthy. ![]() “I do it myself” is a normal part of child development. Why is it that so many Christians never grow past the milk of someone spoon feeding them Bible study to the “I do it myself” of studying straight from the text of Scripture? That child grows past the milk of spoon feeding, and someone else showing him how, or doing it for him, to the meat of growing in maturity and independence and self-feeding. Because he knows that “I do it myself” is better. He will fight you off if you try to help. That child doesn’t want you breathing down his neck. It brings with it the joy of figuring it out for yourself, the satisfaction of accomplishment, the firsthand learning that sticks with you that spoon feeding just doesn’t bring. “I do it myself” brings with it rewards that having someone show you, or do it for you, just doesn’t. That child would rather struggle with that sock or puzzle piece for five, ten, fifteen minutes than let us help.īecause that child knows something about life that we don’t know about Bible study. We’re standing right there, ready and able to show them how to do it or do it for them, and yet, “I do it myself.”. Maybe he’s trying to put on a sock, or she’s trying to fit a puzzle piece into a puzzle. Whether you’re a mom, an aunt, a grandmother, or babysitter, you’ve heard a toddler say this at some point.
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