By Heather Thomas | Leave A Comment
As a parent, my sincerest hope for my children is for them to follow Jesus. When I pray for them, it is the one thing I ask of the Lord on their behalf.
One Sunday, as we were about to take Communion at our Church, an Elder got up before the congregation and talked about the parable of the lost son from Luke 15. As he talked, a young man walked down the aisle beside of me and took a seat two rows up. As he sat, he slipped his arm around the woman next to him, his mother.
I knew it was his mother because minutes before, I was having my pre-service ritual of visiting the restroom and as I washed my hands, she was beside of me doing the same. Another lady walked in and they started to talk. (We go to a fairly large church and I didn’t know either of them.)
She told her friend that tomorrow was her birthday and that she wanted her kids to join her at church today but her request started a rather heated discussion between them as she was leaving. I assumed it was because they didn’t want to come. She left for church thinking that they wouldn’t come and her one birthday request was denied.
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Thanks for writing this. What a sweet story.
“I am praying with all my might that choose Him”
Me too!
Outstanding post! So encouraging and challenging. I need to pray for my children more!
Oh wow. What a great memory. I pray earnestly for this for my own children. Thank you.
I love seeing this “love in action” with young adult children, thanks for sharing. My kids are very young adults now and while it’s fun watching them make their own decisions, it’s also like sitting on dynamite, afraid of one wrong move. I pray for them daily.
what a fabulous story and God chosen verse for your elder to read on that very day. I pray all the time my son will know the Lord as I do and have a person relationship with Him. I pray that I lead with example and I am a good witness. By all means, I fail regularly, but as long as we keep the Word of the Lord in our home, my little one will know who He is!
Heather,
This post reminded me of what my mom probably went through with me when I walked away from the Catholic Church in 1987. I spent around 12 years wandering around apart from God.
In late 1999, that all changed for me when I became a born again Christian. I know that both of my parents didn’t understand it for a long while, but they can see a changed relationship between God and me.
I have a 15 year old stepson and a 13 month old son. I’m already seeing the 15 year old pull away from the childlike faith he used to have. My wife and I are praying that God keeps him close. I don’t want him to necessarily go through what I did, but I do want him to figure out who he is going to serve on his own. He needs to make his faith his. His relationship is between him and God and short of praying, there’s not much else we can do at this point.
But I see now with a my one year old that the praying needs to start now (and it has) and that God’s will be done through his little life. It’s my hope that God accomplishes great things through both of my boys.