On Friday night, Kaden and I and Caleb were sitting at the dinner table rushing to get supper done before all the kids showed up for Biblestudy. Caleb was being particurally fussy and Matt was late getting home from work. Out of the blue, Kaden asks, "Mom, what is sin." I took a deep breath and said a silent prayer...and time slowed down. I tried my best to explain what sin is, disobeying God, and how all of us commit sin and that is why we need Jesus to be our Savior. He took the punishment that we deserved for our sin. Because no sin can get into Heaven, we can't go to Heaven because we sin. But Jesus died so that if we believe in Him and believe that He died as punishment for our sin we can get into Heaven. Kaden told me that he did believe that, and I told him that we need to pray and tell Jesus that we believe and ask Him to come live in our hearts. Kaden said that he wanted to pray. So I prayed and Kaden repeated after me, with his eyes shut tight, he poured his little heart out to the Lord. He told Jesus that He believed he had died and risen again, and that he was sorry for the sins he had done, and he wanted Jesus to come live in His heart. When he opened his eyes, Kaden was so excited and happy. I told him he had just become a Christian and he just kept saying, "I'm a Christian now!" and "Jesus is in my heart". He became a bit perplexed when I told him that when we died we would go to Heaven, because he said, "But Jesus died for me". So I explained as best I could that just our bodies die and we will get new bodies in Heaven that never get sick and hurt, but who we are...our hearts...would never die.
Wow, it's hard to explain theology to a three year old, but I know that as far as he is able to understand he grasps what Jesus did for him, and that he believes it with all his heart. Jesus himself said that we need to have faith as a child, and that the kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these (children). So praise God, Kaden has accepted Christ as his Savior. Now my prayer is that he will grow in that faith and that one day he will truly and deeply understand all that it means and what Christ did for him.
We celebrated that night by sining Happy Birthday with the youthgroup and having cupcakes which I had just "happened" to make that day. God is so good.
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WOW How wonderful!! I am so happy for him and for you all. That is just great! You did a really good job explaining it and Kaden is one smart boy for understanding. I still get from Emmalee that she doesn't a grown man that can walk living in her heart there is just not enough room. But Congratulations and Happy Birthday to Kaden. I love you LOTS!
Oh Michelle! How wonderful!!!
How super exciting! I bet there is nothing that feels better as a parent!
that's wonderful
That's great Michelle! Kylie and I have had talks aobut this too. She has learned alot from AWANA's and BSF, and is always asking me questions. We had the Trust in Jesus belive he died for you conversation, but I don't think we prayed about it (is it just terrible that I don't remember?) She seems to understand it very well though.
Thank you all so much for rejoicing with us over Kaden. It blesses my heart so much. THank you.
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