FEEDING TIME

     Religion is the school for children.  Its masters do not want their children to mature and become adults. 
    Therefore the children of religion arise and go to their classrooms for feeding from the days of their childhoods until their days of older years, then they perish, and their days are no more, for they became obedient to their masters as little children and they remain as children throughout their lives.
    For their eyes are upon their masters and their ears attend to their words, and, as such, as obedient children, they remain obedient unto death. 
    For children in the school of religion, Christ is just part of the story that they have heard for years and years, just another fixture in the framework of their minds, honed by the words of their masters, for their faith is in the voices of their masters, framed and formatted in their minds since they were little children, and for which they remain. 
    Their textbooks are their rites, rituals, and traditions, which they feed upon in the classroom of their feeding times by their masters, the shepherds of their souls.  Their textbooks never change and the teachings of their masters never change; for that which worked on them as children continues to work in them throughout the days of their lives.
    Children of religion cannot speak for Christ, for what can they say?  It is not Christ who does for them:  it is their religion.  For neither is Christ in the voices of their masters.  It is not Christ who saves them from their sins:  it is their religion.
    Weeping is the evidence of a person's humility as well as the evidence of brokenness before God.  Children of religion, however, have no tears.  No tears of humility, no tears of joy:  for the lack of tears is the evidence of pride. 
    For those of us who know Christ, we want to know more of Him every day that we live!  For children of religion, however, they return to the tables of their feeding times, sit down before their masters, and