Superpowers!

The other day I was reading to the kindergarten class when I noticed one of the kids sticking a metal hair clip into the electric outlet. I of course took the hair clip from them immediately, and started explaining the dangers of sticking stuff into electric outlets. I told them how it could really hurt them. They asked me lots of questions about how it worked and what might happen to them if they did in fact try to stick something in those fascinating little holes in the wall. I answered all of their question and felt that I made it very clear that getting shocked hurts very badly and they didn't want to mess around with it. Then Junior looked at me and said "I have superpowers so it wont hurt me if I stick something in there." I told him that unfortunately it still hurts people that did have superpowers and not to stick anything into it. I thought that Junior's response was such a classic human response to someone warning us against something that could be harmful to us. To some degree I think most humans think that we are invincible. We pick and choose what advice we listen. We might even listen to what someone says and say, "yeah they have a point, that might be true for someone, but I think it's OK for me." As we get older we have less and less people telling us their opinions about life, but God's word stands for all of us and there are lots of commands God gives us that we do not heed to. We think "but that is such a little thing...it doesn't matter." The thing is though, if it didn't matter to God then he wouldn't have said it in the first place. Listen to Junior's response made me laugh initially, but made me really think about myself and the way I as a human respond so often to advice given to me.