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Raise a Child to know God and they might amaze you!

Proverbs 22:6 “Raise a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”

This weekend we embarked on a family adventure.  My 3 year old was sick, but my 2 year old was hyper and my husband was dieing to go camping.  So we loaded up the car, loaded up the dogs, loaded up the kids and off we went.  It amazes me how much stuff you have to bring when you go camping for just ONE night. 

We chose a beautiful campsite, in a beautiful location with beautiful, leave changing tree lined trails to hike.  We loaded up our kids again and went to go hiking.  My 3 year old, still not feeling well, had me carry her the entire time, daddy wasn’t going to cut it.  When we finally got back to camp, I had to just sit down.  I was beat.  My oldest climbed on my lap and asked me to sing.  The night before that, we had had a group of people over our house for a Bon-Fire-Bible study.  I asked her what she wanted and she requested songs from that night.  It was beautiful to hear her little off key voice trying to sing along with me.

My husband started the fire and we sat around to cook the camping staple of hotdogs.  After, they were eaten, we sat and talked and sang.  My husband had my 2 year old who is just learning the intricacies of language.  As we looked up into the multi-colored tree canopy, we were drawn closer to God by seeing his amazing beauty.  My husband asked my 2 year old what she saw up there.  We were prepared for her to say leaves, or the different colors the leaves were changing, or birds as she is constantly finding them and is in love with any type of bird, but instead she floored us by saying, “I see Jesus.” 

So we said, is Jesus up there?  Her response was, “yes, Jesus up there.”  Nothing like a 2 year old to remind you that Jesus is there and is everywhere.  There were a lot of moments like this with our children this overnight trip we took.  When our 3 year old asked us since God and Jesus were in our hearts, who was in their hearts?  Or when we looked into the lake and she said, God made all this?  Lately, our 3 year old has been very talkative about Jesus and God since we read our kids a Bible story before bed time every night.  Now that our 2 year old has started too, my heart is melting. 

So, in closing, I want to share the question that we ask our children before bed every night.  “And who is Jesus?”  their response, “Jesus is GOD!”  Usually yelled like that.  Lets remember today that Jesus IS God and if a child can see it, then why can’t we too?

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