Every day Rosie asks to watch this video……now I can’t go a day without watching it and thinking of those precious little girls who NEED HIM EVER SO MUCH – JUST LIKE ME!!
Pray daily for those who don’t know His name – who don’t know HOW MUCH they truly need Him! For those that endure injustice every single day – things we can’t even imagine.
“Forgiveness”
It’s the opposite of how you feel
When the pain they caused is just too real
It takes everything you have just to say the word…
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
It flies in the face of all your pride
It moves away the mad inside
It’s always anger’s own worst enemy
Even when the jury and the judge
Say you gotta right to hold a grudge
It’s the whisper in your ear saying ‘Set It Free’
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Show me how to love the unlovable
Show me how to reach the unreachable
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness
It’ll clear the bitterness away
It can even set a prisoner free
There is no end to what it’s power can do
So, let it go and be amazed
By what you see through eyes of grace
The prisoner that it really frees is you
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Show me how to love the unlovable
Show me how to reach the unreachable
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness
I want to finally set it free
So show me how to see what Your mercy sees
Help me now to give what You gave to me
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14
I love the way it’s written in Matthew…..but I also LOVE the way Malaya says it.
This was when she was just 3 years old…..
The girls and I have been doing our own devotions every night. I picked up a girl’s Bible study that was for preteens….perhaps a little more mature study than they’re used to.
The very first devotion was about salvation and what was holding them back from accepting Jesus as their Lord and Savior? Wow! Talk about not wasting any time. BANG! First devotion just lays it out straight!
Sometimes I wish we did that in our adult devotions. Not that I don’t think we need to spend lots of time teaching…..but sometimes we spend so much time teaching about Jesus and not enough time showing them Jesus. You know what I mean?
I didn’t pre-read the devotion before we started. I simply opened the book and started reading. The next thing I knew I had three bright-eyed girls looking at me wanting to talk about their salvation.
Mikela asked me, “Why don’t you just MAKE us get baptized. Then if we die it doesn’t matter”.
Malaya questioned, “Don’t all the children get to go to Heaven anyways? At what age does God consider you not a child”?
Rosie said, “I’m afraid I’ll drown when they dunk me under the water… but if Malaya & Mikela do it then I guess I’ll do it too. But make them go first”.
Well….Hmm. That’s pretty deep for Day 1 at 9pm. So I did what ANY mother would do!! I yelled for MY momma to come downstairs and help me!
Mom and I spent over an hour explaining to the girls that we can’t “make” them be a Christian. I can’t force them to have Jesus in their heart. (Man wouldn’t that be nice! That would certainly make ministry a lot easier).
Since their Aunt Nora passed away, the girls have had a lot of questions about eternity. It’s almost a daily conversation.
As I listen to the girls pray at night they are beginning to ask God for – “Wisdom about when to be baptized, Understanding of what it means to be a Christian, Forgiveness for the things they did that day, & for Peace and Comfort for all of Nora’s family”.
Their prayers are showing their spiritual growth and I can really see Jesus moving in their precious little lives as they begin to think about their salvation.
I guess my only question to all of you is the same one that was asked to my little girls – What is holding you back from accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior? Because honestly – this is the most important question you’ll ever be asked……
I’ve got all these plans piled up sky high
A thousand dreams on hold
And I don’t know why,
I got a front row seat
To the longest wait
And I just can’t see
Past the things I pray
Today
But when I fix my eyes on all that You are
Then every doubt I feel
Deep in my heart
Grows strangely dim
All my worries fade
And fall to the ground
Cause when I seek Your face
And don’t look around
Any place I’m in
Grows strangely dim
Sometimes where I stand
On this narrow road
Is in a raging storm
Or a valley low
But oh
When I fix my eyes on all that You are
Then every doubt I feel
Deep in my heart
Grows strangely dim
All my worries fade
And fall to the ground
Cause when I seek Your face
And don’t look around
Any place I’m in
Grows strangely dim
I don’t know, I don’t know
What tomorrow may hold
But I know, but I know
That You’re holding it all
So no matter what may come
I’m gonna fix my eyes on all that You are
‘Til every doubt I feel
Deep in my heart
Grows strangely dim
Let all my worries fade
And fall to the ground
I’m gonna seek Your face
And not look around
Til the place I’m in
Grows strangely, strangely, strangely dim.
