“‘Sex,’ I was pretty sure, meant whether you were a boy or girl, and ‘sin’ made Tante Jans very angry, but what the two together meant I could not imagine. And so, seated next to Father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, ‘Father, what is sexsin?’
He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case from the rack over our heads, and set it on the floor.
‘Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?’ he said.
I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning.
‘It’s too heavy,’ I said.
‘Yes,’ he said. ‘And it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It’s the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.’ (Carrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place).

I love that picture of a child trying to carry the suitcase. Of course it’s too heavy. No child should have to carry such a load. It’s the same way when we try to sexualize kids and teach them sexuality before they’re ready and able to carry the weight of such knowledge.

But I think primarily God does that with us. So much of what we don’t understand is because we’re not able to carry it yet. We’re not to the place where our minds can wrap around all that God is doing. So we accuse God of ill intentions and blame Him for our pain.

But when we hang on and keep trusting in the Father, one day we understand. One day it all makes sense. One day we see that it could not have been any other way to get us where we are now. And we see that God carried far more of a burden for us that we carried in ourselves.

Ultimately, He carried it up to a hill called Golgotha and it led to a cross where He bore all our sins so that we would never have to carry such a burden ever again. He said that we should take His yoke because it’s easy to carry and His burden is light.

And one day we will all understand.