CB: "Momma, I hope God calls me to be a missionary."
Me, catching my breath: "Well, son, He may just have. He may just have."
Goodness. That random comment during our lessons took my breath. As parents who seek to rear our children in the will of God, we absolutely want them to become who God created them to be. But in order for us to do that, we have to remember, our children aren't ours. They belong to God and we are just the ones He has entrusted to care, to teach, to love and to rear them according to His will until they leave our home to live their own independent life of God's will. And when we pray that God's will be done with our children and when we accept the blessing, the honor and the privilege God has allowed us to have, we must realize that His will may take them to places we as parents don't like, doing things that may very well be dangerous. Our children aren't ours to give back to Him...they were and are always His. The ultimate being for their life, is to glorify Him and that sometimes means, "go ye throughout the whole world making disciples of all men." The world doesn't end at the US border, it has no ending. The world includes Syria, Iran, China, Iraq, Africa. Those places need missionaries, too.
Me, catching my breath: "Well, son, He may just have. He may just have."
Goodness. That random comment during our lessons took my breath. As parents who seek to rear our children in the will of God, we absolutely want them to become who God created them to be. But in order for us to do that, we have to remember, our children aren't ours. They belong to God and we are just the ones He has entrusted to care, to teach, to love and to rear them according to His will until they leave our home to live their own independent life of God's will. And when we pray that God's will be done with our children and when we accept the blessing, the honor and the privilege God has allowed us to have, we must realize that His will may take them to places we as parents don't like, doing things that may very well be dangerous. Our children aren't ours to give back to Him...they were and are always His. The ultimate being for their life, is to glorify Him and that sometimes means, "go ye throughout the whole world making disciples of all men." The world doesn't end at the US border, it has no ending. The world includes Syria, Iran, China, Iraq, Africa. Those places need missionaries, too.
I know, he's only 9. But God knew CB before he was conceived. And since CB's conception, God has been actively molding him into the person He created him to be, even today with that random comment in our little classroom studying math.
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