God’s Toys

At the end of the day, we’re all kids. That’s how we feel inside, like the little boy or girl we once were. Compared to the ancestors of old, we are mere children indeed, dying at ages when their life spans were just beginning to blossom.

In any case, God stoops down to our level to teach us his wisdom. Often he does so by using earthly imagery to picture spiritual and heavenly realities. Saint Augustine put it like this:

The divine Scriptures are in the habit of making something like children’s toys out of things that occur in creation, by which to entice our sickly gaze and get us step by step to seek as best we can the things that are above…

Let’s enjoy the simple and earthen images with which the Scriptures are rich, allowing ourselves to be led by them to the greater realities which they embody. Let’s enjoy all created things in a manner that they may lead us to God’s throne.