One of my favorite roles is that of grandfather. I was blessed last week to receive the following email from one of my daughters, mother to two precious children -- a 6-year-old daughter and a 3 1/2-year-old son:
Jake comes dashing into his bedroom in
his underwear carrying his little orange Gideon Bible.
"Momma! I want to read from the Old Testament, then the New
Testament. But let's start with Proverbs."
We finished reading and he said he wanted to read MORE. As we
read we heard that God is our shield. Our refuge. I asked Jake what a shield does, and he quickly
replied, "To protect us!"
I asked, “If a shield is round about us, could anything harm us?”
He said, "Nothing can hurt us."
I reminded him that JESUS is THE ROCK of our salvation. We
talked about the big rock Jake plays on at the park and the fact that when he
stands upon that rock nothing can shake him.
I asked, "What if someone punched that rock? Would it move?
"No, Momma!"
“What if someone tried to lift that rock from its place. Could
they do it?"
"No Momma!"
We talked about what it means to trust in Jesus. And then I
asked Jake if he has asked Jesus to come into his heart to be Lord. He shook
his head and said, "No!!"
I asked, "Well, would you like to say YES to Jesus as Lord
and King in your life?"
"Oh, yes!"
So I asked him if he remembered where sin came from, how sin
entered the world. And he said through Adam, who disobeyed God by eating from
the tree of good and evil. Because of it they had to leave the garden.
He said, "My heart feels empty."
So we prayed and invited the Holy Spirit to come make Himself at
home in Jacob’s heart.
Jakie then said, "My heart feels heavy."
"Heavy in a good way or a bad way?" I asked.
"Heavy in a good way Momma," he said.
She closed her story with the rhetorical question regarding her two children: "Is there any greater joy than to have been blessed to come
alongside both of our children and see them know Christ and equip them to make
Him known?"
