While the big kids and I were “in church” this morning these two cuties were logged on to their own worship time. It resulted in this video. When I chatted with her about her thought that accepting Jesus was hard, she said that having to say your sorry and wrong in very hard.
I remember vividly the events leading up to her sweet salvation. We had been talking about having another baby and her maybe being a big sister, she was around 3. She was adamantly against it. One night we got home after being out all afternoon and as we walked into the house she informed us that if we had a new baby she would put it in the road to get run over (you won’t ever convince me we aren’t born with our sin nature). I immediately stopped and dealt with this disturbing turn of events. I’ll spare you the details, but the talk resulted in a very somber little girl as we prepared and sat down to dinner. Barely into the meal she leaves the table and goes upstairs to her room without a word, leaving us wondering. She returns a bit later and I asked what she had been doing. In the most serious tone she tells us, that she just could let her heart be black anymore and she needed to ask Jesus to wash it clean. Then she continued eating. I remember smiling through tears at the simplicity with which children approach God. It brings a smile to my face today, that she’s doing this video with her baby sister, whom she loves.
What a reminder to me that they are watching and listening. But more than that are we leading them in the way God calls us too as parents? Their tender hearts need to be guided yet protected. They are looking to us to show His love. They are the future.
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