I was putting my 4 year old daughter to bed the other night and just when I thought she was asleep she blurted out a random statement that her sins are gone just like from the fire. I was not sure what she was talking about so she continued and then I finally realized she was talking about an event we celebrated on Easter. During the 4 weeks before Easter (known as Lent) as a church we wrote out our confessions and pinned them on a cross. On Easter we took all those written confessions and went outside to burn them (see the above picture).
For believers in Christ, it was a visual that our sin had been covered by the work of Jesus Christ. My daughter who is 4 understood this. She got it.
She then asked, dad is everyone's sin covered by Jesus. I had to share that not everyone believed. This is the hard thing she had understanding...why not?
She then told me that she was going to go to her children's group on Sunday and ask each person individually if they believed.
I thank God for this gift.
1. Thanks God that I could tuck Ella in and have this discussion
2. Thanks God that Ella knows Jesus
3. Thanks God that you put a longing in her heart for others to know you
4. Thanks God for reminding me through Ella of the urgency and need to share the Good News with others.
Those who are in Christ are a new creation - the old is gone - Praise God. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
