We continued our studies into missionary work in today's world after the regular subjects of study were covered,and it was so sweet to see the heart for evangelism that is sparking in my oldest child's heart; with the sin struggles that beset him and he cannot *seem* to get any ground on, it is so encouraging to see God working in this fresh, unexpected way! I know that,in my own life, there are areas of sin that I will probably always struggle with as well ('till I'm in Heaven,)and yet God still chooses to work through me, to bless people and spread the word about Him, despite all of that. This sheds new light on 'He chooses the weak and the foolish to confound the wise'! There is no doubt that a child is weak and foolish according to the world's standards, but we as adults are weak and foolish too because we don't have God's wisdom and we recognize our weakness and our foolishness as gifts because they push us closer to God. We see our need for a Savior!!

Ty has confessed previously that he has not been sure that he could have a missionaries heart, because he would be too afraid to put his life in danger in order to tell others about Jesus. And I have prayed that God would bless him with a spirit of bravery, of unwavering trust in the Lord. Today during Bible reading time he told me that he thinks he is not afraid anymore, that the fear he once had has been overtaken by a supreme burden for the state of people's souls who need to hear about Jesus. He said that he trusts God to take care of him if he wants to travel as a missionary someday, even if it means prosecution for him in a new, scary way. I asked him if he remembered and understood fully how many Christians have been martyred and prosecuted for God in the past, and are being martyred and prosecuted now, how common it is (we have been going through the Fox's book of martyr's for some time now, a story at a time, and we are subscribers to Voice of Martyr's free magazine, you can check them out at http://www.persecution.com, which we read monthy and pray after reading for all the Christians being persecuted in the world, so he has been educated in this,) and he said that he did understand it,that he knew it was God's will what happened to those men and women and that if he were to die, that this would be God's will too. Tears were streaming down my face as he also said that God turns all things meant for evil into GOOD.!!!


My heart is just so overfilled with !Thanks! to God, for His provision of a Godly pastor, and his family, for us to learn from and for His plan to use parents(as regular, sinful people) to train up and raise these children's hearts and minds in a way that is the way that they should go-the right way; to train them to trust in God, as imperfect at that as we yet are. His promises, His ways, seem as foolishness to the world and yet look agaian: it was His plan that saved us all and it is His Holy Spirit that guides us daily to trust in Him; His grace that gives us the strength to do the right things every day when doing the right things is hard. Thanks to Him, for saving me, I can now teach my son about Jesus and about God's call to all of us believers to 'go forth and baptise the nations..." With a heart full of faith,I see Ty doing just that in the future years to come. Thank You, Lord!