Easter Moments

This time of year we want to teach our children the real meaning of Easter. I explain to my granddaughter it's not about hiding eggs, an Easter Bunny, or even finding the treasured "Golden Egg". It's about what God gave to all of us. HE gave His only Son so that we may believe in Him forever.We know this because so many of the writers of the Bible told us so. We know that God is seeing, hearing and feeling everything we do each day. I explain to my granddaughter that she knows in her heart that God only wants what is best for her. She tries to ask me when is she going to "see" God. I tell her when he feels it is her time to come up to see Him. For the time being, she is to stay on this earth and do His work, so that others may get to know Him too. She is only 8years old of course, but she knows he is in her heart. She knows that he gave what was so precious to him, His own Son. We in turn have to deliver the word of God to others so that they may believe too. We want to pass the real reason for this time of year to other children. If you like to hunt Easter Eggs and all that "fun stuff", then that is good. But remember what this time season is all about. It is about a love that is no greater than what God had for his only Son,that he wanted to show people there is a way to live their lives, the right way. The "Godly" way. We need to believe that everything we do will affect us, our children and anyone around us for the rest of our lives. What we do today, will reflect on what our own children will do when they are grown. It will reflect on how they will raiset their own children, and who they want them to believe in. Don't we want the best for our children? Of course the answer is YES! If you really do believe you want the very best, trust in the Lord, live the way He wants you to live. Do the best you can each and every day. Be a "hands-on" parent to your children. Don't wait for someone else to "raise them" for you. You are their "first" and formost teacher in their entire lives. They learn so much from just wathcing you and listening to what you say and do. You may not think they are listening, but you can best believe they are right there in the 'cracks' listening to every word you let out of your mouth. Your actions show them exactly what they are suppose to do. They think if it's "OK" for mommy and daddy to do it, then it must be "OK" for me to do the same thing they are doing too. This is why you want to check and double check yourself when you're around not only your own children, but all children. They leave by seeing and listening. If they see the wrong things being done, or hear that things are done a certain way, they think that "IS" the right way, because after all an adult is doing it, it must be the correct way. You need to understand that they have very sharp minds and rather very intelligent minds. They will see an adult do something once, and that sets the stage for them to always do it the way they see it. That is why we have to be so pictular how and what we say and do. Jesus loves the little children, and he wants them to follow 'His way', the right way. If we lead them down the wrong road, they may stay on that path, and it could be their path of destruction. We don't want that for our own children. We only want the best, and in order for that to happen, we have to do our best at all times. It is such a little price to pay, to get our children headed in the right direction. If we could just put them in a buble and not allow anything to get to them that we feel would coorupte them, then we probably would do that. But, we don't do that. We only want waht is best, and in order to do that, you must follow what God tells you to do on a daily basis. I don't mean to preach, but sometimes you may get hard headed, and if preaching is what you need, I won't get off my soap box until I am sure you understand that everything you do effects your own children one way or the other. Just remember in this time of year that God is there to let you into his heart, his mind and soul. Just let him come into you and you can always pick oursleves up and start over. It's not a dead end if we make a mistake. That is why God wants us to be the "first teachers" of our children. What better teachers can the children count on than the ones that gave birth to them, or the ones that they call "mommy and "daddy" all the time? Please, please trust in the Lord, let him into your heart so we can get his over with. We want our children to take the time out this season and try their best to seek out one person, if possible, and lean a little bit about that one person. Invite them to come to church with you, and yes, you can even invite them to that grand "Easter Egg Hunt", but invite them to see the Lord the way you see Him. Let them know that He is there to support them and show them the way. He is their Light, let Him shine on them and know He is everyone's Lord too.
I hope this finds you all doing well as can be, as I am. I'm trying to see that my granddaughter does help with others, and she can reach out and touch at least one of her friends to read what God is all about. Even if she only reaches out to one, that is one more that will know there is one God that loves them and wants them to know He cares for them, as if they were His only children too.