Reassurance

While tucking our son C in to bed a few weeks ago, he expressed a lot of doubt that he was really going to heaven someday. He confided to me that he often thinks about that while lying in the dark and has trouble falling asleep, even having nightmares about it on occasion. He is the sweetest boy, with the tenderest heart that you'd ever want to meet. He has loved Jesus since he first knew who He was, and trusted Christ to be his Savior over a year ago. But the doubts he's been experiencing are common to many young christians, and he is still young enough that he cannot reason things out well, or begin to think abstractly about things he cannot see and touch and feel.

First I asked him some questions to be sure he understood, as much as possible for his age, Christ taking the punishment for his sin, and his need for a Savior. He did, and he was sure he was a christian. He was adament about that.

So we opened his Bible and went through some verses of assurance, starting with I John 5:11-12. I explained what it meant and we talked about it for awhile. Then we looked at John 10:27-30, and John 3:16 (already very familiar to him). I asked if he would like to highlight those verses and mark them somehow so they would be easy to find. He eagerly said yes.


He keeps his Bible right beside his bed and has been reading the marked verses every night right before going to sleep, and every morning immediately upon waking.


A few days ago he said to me, "it's working mommy, because I don't have those doubts anymore!"

I cannot tell you what a blessing it is to witness the power of God's Word transforming one of my own children.


"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." ~ 2 Timothy 3:16

"For the Word of God is living and active..." ~ Hebrews 4:12