like little children

After watching Sean's interest in spiritual things increase dramatically in the last several months, I think I finally fully understand what Jesus meant by becoming like little children.

I commented earlier on how much Sean loves to sing songs from Bible class. We had a singing Sunday night, and one of the songs we sang was Jesus Loves Me. Needless to say, we had several heads turning our way due to Sean's sweet little voice.

I also discovered when I subbed for his teacher on Sunday that he willingly says an entire prayer by himself in Bible class, all the way from "Dear God" to "Amen," thanking God for all of his family and friends in between. We pray with him every night, but we usually have to prompt him to get through it, so it was sweet listening to him say an entire prayer by himself (and he's only done it once for me at bedtime since then--I guess it's not the time or place for all-by-myself prayers).

We finally started a family devotional after breakfast just a few days ago, after months of thinking about it, talking about it, planning it. We were thinking that to accomodate the little ones and make it applicable, we had to make it more like a Bible class and needed more than just the Bible. We finally decided that God's people have been learning from just the Bible for years, that's what God instructed His people to listen to from the beginning, so that should be good enough for even the little ones. After Chris read a short passage and talked about it that first morning, he went to put his Bible down and Sean said, "No, Daddy, me want listen more!" It brought tears to my eyes. All I could think was, "Why can't we all have that kind of yearning? Lord, make my heart like that."