Have you ever listened to people talk to a baby? Often it is the sweetest, syrupiest sound. Since we learn to talk by mimicking the language of adults I have wondered how it is that we don’t permanently talk baby talk all our lives. I think there is a gummy candy commercial with adults talking like babies. I think it is so creepy.
It did remind me of I Corinthians 13:11, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.” I wondered if God uses “baby talk” to communicate with us. Because He knows everything and we know so very little, does He condescend and make things as simple as possible when He wants us to know something? It seems as though that would out of necessity have to be the case. Yet Isaiah 1:8 says, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Hebrews 1:1 says, “In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son . . .”
And Jesus said to His disciples, “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.” John 16:12. There it is. While God does NOT speak to us as babies, He does note our limitations and adjusts for each of us individually.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 20, 2017
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