Let the children come to Me

In Matthew 19:14 Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

In obedience to that and to honour our covenant with God that we would dedicate our children to Him when they were born, we got the twins baptised before they were one. And faithfully, every Sunday, we bring them to church, to Sunday School.

They love Sunday School and Packrat and I love watching them in Sunday School because they are so sincere and earnest in their praise of God. In addition to that, they loved all the action songs and catchy tunes. But apart from that, Sunday School at church is relatively straight forward. There is none of the southern, gospel choir type of praise.

So imagine our surprise when we walked into their bedroom to investigate the ruckus coming from there and discovered them jumping up and down with their arms in the air, praising God at the top of their voices.





It really looked as if they'd grown up in a southern Baptist church. Arms waving, feet jumping, praising God at the top of their voices.

Both Packrat and I are more sedate in our ways of worship but both of us agree that God must be thrilled watching our two little monkeys so unabashedly glorifying Him. We would not have dreamed of telling them to play it down if not for the fact that they were getting so hopped up just before bedtime and their baby brother had had a hard time being put to bed and we didn't want them waking him up again. So, we asked them to sing a quieter song, changed them out of their sweaty pyjamas (once again reminiscent of southern summers) and settled them.

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