A Late Night Talk With Eternal Perspectives

Last night while re-tucking my oldest in, (he reads for awhile after his first tuck in -and if we forget to come and say, " lights out" he could be reading late into the night) we had a wonderful conversation! He is usually reserved with his feelings. Occasionally he will open up and last night was one of those times.

Earlier in the evening, we'd talked together as a family about a gift we each could give Jesus. We decided on Christmas Eve we will have a birthday party for Jesus, and write down our gift that we would like to give. I asked my oldest if he had any ideas. He said, "The best gift would be to give Jesus my heart." I asked him if he knew what that meant and here is what he said:

To give Jesus your heart means to invite Him to live there. Sometimes what's on the outside doesn't match what's on the inside, so even if it looks like your good your mind may not be. When you ask Jesus to live in your heart then He can help you keep your mind on good stuff and then your inside matches your outside. He went on to say that when we die and God calls us before Him, (my oldest child) imagines there will be a dry erase board behind God with all of the bad things we've done written on it. It will be big and full. Jesus will come and erase all of the bad things because He already paid for those things then our erase boards will be empty and clean.

What a wonderful blessing my children are to me. I am learning so much about the enjoyment of life and about God through them! What a marvelous gift my son has to give Jesus this year. What a blessing for my oldest to receive the gift of eternal life!

Dear God,
I am so very thankful that my children are beginning to understand and realize the great love you have for them. A love so great that you offered up Your own Son to pay the price of our transgressions, that we might live eternally with You. Grant me the wisdom to continue to nurture and teach them about You and the importance of a relationship with You. Thank you for the family members, Ministers, Sunday School teachers, Scout Leaders, Camp Counsellors and Music Leaders who have had a role in leading my children to You.

In Jesus Name,
Amen

Romans 3:23
"For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God;"

Romans 7:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Ephesians 2:8
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith; and this not from yourselves, it is a gift of God, not by works, so that on one can boast."

Pray a prayer like this:

Luke 18:13
"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God have mercy on me a sinner.'"

John 3:16-17
" For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son in to the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. "