I woke up one morning to get my coffee and saw a piece of notebook paper in front of my coffee pot, in fact there was two. One said in large print with an arrow pointing toward the other one " Read this and tell me what you think". So I figured it was an essay for school, so I began to proofread it totally unsuspecting what I would read. Here it goes, word for word, what my 12 yr old daughter wrote:
"What Jesus Means to Me"
Jesus means so much to me that, if I had to, I would die for Him. It's a simple as that. Jesus means so much to me that I want to praise and worship him for the rest of my days.
Jesus has been so good to me, even though I am only 12. It makes me think about what he's going to do for the rest of my life. Once he performed a miracle for me. I put my bright wallet on my dads tire in a parking lot before. I forgot about it and we left. After a while I remembered it. We couldn't go get it until after church though.
It had 30 dollars in it. During church I prayed that he wouldn't let anyone pick it up. After church we went to see if it was still there, and it was! I counted the money and it was all there! Even thought, I was 7 years old, he proved that he would answer even little kids prayers. Another time my mom took a weight loss class, and they made her do the bike for 30 minutes everyday. Her legs hurt her so bad that she could barely walk. We were again, in church and she prayed that He would heal her. God spoke to her and told her to run the aisle. She didn't want to but she did. Immediately she was healed, and her legs didn't hurt her anymore.
Every time I get down about God, I think about that and I can't resist but to love Him for it. I'm also very happy that he died on the cross so that we could go to heaven. I could write so much more about Him and eventually I will. In fact, I am very fired up about witnessing. Once I witnessed to my friend about God, and now I want to win a soul.
After I wiped the tears from my eyes, I wrote back to her and told her how wonderful a job she did in writing this. It truly came from her heart. I was so proud at that very moment to have such a thankful 12 year old girl as my child. God is so good to have watched over us and kept our minds through troubled times. You just never really know what your kids are thinking, sometimes you worry that they may go in the wrong direction, but you just have to leave it up to God. Like my Pastor says all the time" there is no perfect parent here on Earth, only the one in Heaven is perfect". That takes a lot of stress and worry off your back. Just do the best you can, pray and leave the rest up to God. He gave us these children, He will see them through along the way.
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