Oct19
I remember with joy a night, several years ago now, that my grandson Sam spent the night with his papa and me. I remember it because when I tucked him in, he prayed like an angel.
This was so memorable because when Leanne began teaching him to pray at the age of two or three, he’d kneel by his bed and utter one quick sentence before looking up at her and asking, “Is that enough?“
Leanne is also striving to teach Sam obedience.
One night when he was not yet three, she endeavored to put pajamas on him. I say endeavored because he kept crawling away from her, scooting across the bed to the far wall. When Leanne grabbed his ankles and pulled him back, he scampered away again. She pulled him back again; he escaped again.
Finally in exasperation she said, “Sammy, if you don’t get back here and let me put these pajamas on you, I’m going to have to spank you.“
She couldn’t believe it when he turned around, looked her in the eyes, and said, “Go foe it!“
Disobedience in a two year old is not a pretty sight. It’s not a pretty sight in God’s people either.
Hebrews 3 reminds Christians that the Israelites didn’t enter the Promised Land, because they didn’t believe God, didn’t obey him. In this chapter belief and obedience seem to be one and the same. It is important that we don’t “fall by following their example of disobedience.“
Nothing can keep us from unbelief and the disobedience that is a sign of it more than the “living and active” word of God. To be full of belief and inclined to obedience, we need to let God’s word “dwell richly” in us.
Hebrews says nothing is hidden from God’s sight. He sees us. He knows our hearts. Those with believing, obedient hearts will enter his rest.
So Leanne will continue to “go foe it.“ Both of my daughters are striving to teach their children what we tried so hard to teach them: that God desires obedience more than sacrifice (I Sam.15: 22) and that obeying such a loving God leads to abundant life here on earth and everlasting life with him in a place he is preparing for us.
I wonder if that’s why being around these grandchildren, growing up so quickly, is such a delight?
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