To Our Child

We began praying for you last night. Of course we prayed to be good parents and godly people you would be proud of, but most importantly, we prayed for you and your salvation.  You will be born into an amazing and powerful world, one that has reshaped many things and advanced the world because of technology.  And that is part of the problem.  We prayed for you, as Jesus did, that you would lead and live in a world that is directly opposed to the things of Christ.  We rationalize and scheme in our hearts, denying that we are, in fact, sinful, fallen beings.  When the prophet Jeremiah wrote that "the heart is decietful and desperately wicked, who can understand it?" there is a sense that even this verse cannot adequetly describe how bad a human being can truly be or become.  So, we began praying for you, and for the salvation that is so freely available to you; for the salvation that can change your life and eternal destination.  We prayed that you would be so amazed by the love God has for you, that HE, seeing your broken and evil intent in your heart (as well as ours),  sent His son, Jesus Christ to pay the penalty for that sin. We prayed that you would be filled with that love, and in faith, turn your life completely over to Christ.  That you would worship, fear and serve His mighty hand and power.

As your parents, we began praying for revival.  We prayed that the Lord would change and "bring to life" our passion for His word, for His direction and His priorities.  Without His revival in our lives, "we labor in vain" in raising you.  It pains me to say this, but i will fail many times in raising you, and i need help, plain and simple.  I need God.  I need His word.  I need His revivial if i am to lead you to the things of God.

To our child, we did not pray for your education, your friends or even what sport you would play.   No my precious one.  We began to pray that you would KNOW "it is not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His son to be the atoning sacrafice for our sins.  If God so loved us, we ought to love one another."