Romans 5:8

D has this habit of drinking water from his water bottle, holding a mouthful of it in his mouth, and then squirting/spitting/leaking it all out. Other times, he likes to turn his straw water bottle upside down to make little puddles of water on the floor, sofa, table or high chair. So any of these acts normally elicits lots of NO NO NO!!! followed by smacks on his hands from me. Of course the fella is unrepentant and will almost always repeat the same crime moments later whenever no one is watching him.

So today, he formed a little puddle on his Ikea high chair tray while I tried to get lunch ready for him and N. So I smacked him on his hands after N alerted me to his puddle-formation. I've tried teaching him to say "Sorry" with his hand patting his head as a sign of sorry too but he is still unable to verbalise it out. The hand sign had to be done with me holding his hand to pat his head. I kept telling him to say "Sorry" but he couldn't or couldn't be bothered. So N, the big brother, said, "Kor-Kor say sorry for you ok? Kor-Kor love you! Sorry Mommy!" That was so sweet of him! 

I thought over what had just happened and talked about it with N: 

Isn't this just like us, when we do wrong things and don't want to say sorry, or haven't even said sorry to God, and Jesus said the "Sorry" to God for us first? God didn't wait for us to be sorry then forgive us for all the wrong things we have done. Jesus said the "Sorry" for us first, even when we didn't know it was wrong or when we keep on doing the wrong things, just like a little toddler who didn't understand his actions and could not apologize properly. Jesus did it for us, because He loves us. Just like N the big brother who apologized on behalf of his unapologetic little brother. :)

"... but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)