Childlike Faith

Be still my heart.

This weekend my girls Anna and Brynn asked Jesus Christ to become their Lord and Savior.  At first I was skeptical: both of them?, did they just follow one another?, do they understand?

Ben and I have talked with them multiple times over the last year.

Then to learn they were in separate classes and each girl expressed interest on her own.  What courage to come forward in front of their peers.  What do they really need to understand?  They understand that we are sinners who Jesus died on the cross to save.  Enough said.

How good does one have to be, how much do we need to know until we know enough to be saved?  That is missing the whole point really.  We are saved by grace.  Plain and simple.

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."  Matthew 19:14

I love their innocence and their eagerness to follow their Heavenly Father.  The one who knew every hair on their head before they were born.  The one who knew on the day they were born to a Russian birth mom, in Siberia, on the other side of the world, that I was to be their mother.  As my sister says God's tapestry woven together perfectly. The one who  knew that at church in Fleming Island, Florida on this very Sunday they would make the most important decision of their lives.

The tears are falling freely as I type this.  I am so thankful.  So humbled.  I know that some mother's wait their entire lives, praying fervently for their sons and daughters to make that leap of faith and they never do.

Of course we have had the conversations following, about how their lives need to bear fruit. Now when they make any decisions, big or small they need to ask themselves does it glorify God? What would God have me do? And when they pray that God will help them make decisions in their lives. We have talked about the I'm Third Principle: God First, Others Second and Myself Third.  It will come. They will grow in their faith along the way.

My girls will fall, sure.  But they will live a life experiencing the hope that Jesus Christ provides.  I am comforted knowing that the boo boos they may suffer from the falls in life will not sting as badly because they have been given hope and grace and peace.

They are to be baptized in church on Christmas morning.  How fitting.  A tiny baby born in a manger, the hope of the world, sent to save us.

Bring on the Kleenex.  This Mama will need them.  Anna and Brynn, it all could have turned out so differently.  Yet God plucked you from a life of despair and had other plans for you.  To whom much is given much is expected.

An oldie but a goodie----

Now go little ones, be His hands and feet.

Welcome to God's Kingdom.

I think we can learn alot from the simplicity of childlike faith.

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.  Luke 2:7

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 1 John 4:9