Galatians 4:3 So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.
We have the written word of God which shows us how much we can depend on the world and what will happen when we do depend entirely on the world! We lose!
The Jews, about which this is written, showed how much they could lose by trusting in their won laws and their own ways instead of in Christ.
We are like children, with little understanding, when it comes to our early lives with Christ. Don’t be fooled back into your earthly ways just because someone looks back and tells you how it should have been!