If you haven't had grandchildren yet, it's hard to explain to you the feeling that you get when you see their sweet faces for the first time! Lacey is my first grandbaby. She was born on October 11,2011. I get to see her about once a month; that's a hundred years in granny time! She is almost 16 months old now and I think about her everyday.
Last year, Courtney and Kyle let me take her and keep her all night at my sister's house and I got to spend some real quality time with her. She was only a month or so old then and as I looked at her, I just prayed that God would hold her in His hands and that He would lead and guide her life. That He would place a wonderful husband in her life one day that would love the Lord as much as her and treat her like a Princess. This sweet little baby is my descendant, and as I prayed over her, it occurred to me: I am a descendant too. A descendant of a King! That makes me and Lacey princesses!
I have the ability to start all over with this baby and do things the right way; with God at the center. My kids got to see too much of the old Sam and old Billy.(Nobody liked them and we are glad that they are gone! Hehe!) Now it is time for redemption. A second chance to raise this child up in the ways of the Lord. An opportunity to say thank you to God for all He has done for me and my family.
Deuteronomy 6:6-8 says, "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads." This is the kind of granny, mom, wife, & friend I want to be! I want to use God's word to make an impression on everybody I meet, especially the ones closest to me.
Think about it?
Do you carry His commandments on your heart and impress them on your children? Do you walk and talk and think about them at all times? Would you tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads?
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