Comforting Assurance
I just had to share an encouragement that God brought our way this morning. One area that I really struggle with is Hannah’s spiritual understanding and growth. I cling to the truth that God will not hold her accountable for what she cannot comprehend, but the enemy likes to plague me with guilt and doubts about assuming she comprehends less than she actually can and that I’m not teaching her enough about the plan of salvation. Right now I’m focusing on getting her familiar with Who Jesus is and that He loves her. We haven’t even started talking about sin and Jesus’ dying to pay for her sin. My goal right now is that she loves and trusts Jesus with childlike innocence.
Well, yesterday was a rough day for me and it carried over into this morning. We’re working hard on getting year-end bookkeeping tasks done and tax items ready for our business, and of course, a new piece of software was not cooperating. My second oldest daughter was with me this morning when I discovered another task that hadn’t worked properly. I asked her to go upstairs to tell Hannah that I wouldn’t be able to do Hannah’s school work until I had gotten this task fixed.
Soon she and Hannah were back downstairs in the bookkeeping office, and she said that Hannah had something to tell me. Usually when a sister says that, it means that a conflict has occurred and Hannah needs to confess something. Hannah came to me and gave me a hug and started making her little stuffed dogs lick my face. Usually those actions mean that she doesn’t want me to be upset with her and what she did. Mentally, I steeled myself for yet another “something that needed to be fixed.”
Hannah wouldn’t talk; she just kept smiling a little comforting smile and having her dogs lick me, so her sister explained. She had informed Hannah that I was sad because my computer was not acting right, and Hannah had said that she wanted to tell me that Jesus loves me. That’s why her sister had brought her downstairs to me!
Praise God for these little glimpses He gives us into Hannah’s heart.
