Tonight's Big Deal

I happened upon this verse tonight during my bible study: Ephesians 2:10.  "We are God's masterpiece.  He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago."  And then I accordingly chose it to be a special teaching memory verse for my Noah to mark tonight's big deal.  What big deal, you ask? Well ...

Tonight, a 6 year old prayer in our lives came true.  You see, it was in this month 6 years ago that we found out that Tania's baby was going to be ours for sure.  So it was at that time that we then shifted from praying for God's will in our lives as it related to adoption to praying, praying, praying for our specific soon-to-be baby boy - praying over and over that as the Lord continued to form his frame in Tania's belly that the Lord would also be forming in Noah a heart bent toward Him.  I prayed it in quiet, we prayed it at house church, we prayed it with all our might because it was all we could do from states away to pray goodness and protection over Noah in utero. We committed him to God before he was even ours and all our 5+ years with him we have put God's Word in front of him and esteemed it ourselves in front of him.

Tonight, he overheard me answering Anna's question about how Jesus comes to live in our hearts and what our role in that happening is.  And, for not the first time, he said he wanted to do that.  He said he wanted to do it now but he didn't know how to.  "I not know what to say. What I say?" he asked me.  We talked again about the decision to receive forgiveness for his sin by way of Jesus' death on the cross.  He agreed he chooses to believe in that power and to continue to seek and obey God in his life.  He asked me to show him what to pray, so I did ... and he DID.

My Noah asked Jesus to be his Savior tonight. 

After that,  Noah wanted to pray it again, so we reviewed what he just prayed and he said it facing Anna and said that she was saved now, too.  :}  I told him that's not quite how it works.  Then he wanted to know how there could be two Jesuses.  How could Jesus be in his heart and then Anna's?  Then he wanted to know where his heart was and why he couldn't feel Jesus in there.  Then at bedtime, the newly born again evangelist told Daddy he wanted him to pray to be saved himself.   :)

Anyway, Noah probably doesn't get why his decision tonight gets me and Josh a little sober and weepy.  He doesn't quite get why we wanted to pull him close and kiss him more than normal.  But I do know he gets that he made an important choice tonight.  And I know there is so much more for him to get.  Here is where the training and discipleship gets a little more real.  And I'm so excited to be the one to continue to help him understand more about salvation, eternity, his Creator, and scripture.

Thank you, my God.  Thank you for your faithfulness in his life that has led up to tonight.  I beg you to snatch up and guard his precious little heart more and more and to continue to grow it in your ways.  Thank you, God!