Today my son stayed home from school and we had some quiet time while the baby was sleeping.
I was working in my room and asked my son to sit on the floor and talk with me while he ate a frozen smoothie. I asked him if he ever had questions about life or God. He answered, “I don’t have questions about God but I do have questions for God.”
He went on to tell me that he often asked God when he is going to die. I asked him why but I knew that the answer was fear of the unknown– because truthfully, I struggle with the same fear some times.
When talking about things that bother him or make him uncomfortable, my son is a man of few words so I did most of the talking. The words that came out of my mouth were not my own. They spoke answers to my heart potentially far more than to his.
I told him that heaven seems like a mystery because we can’t see it with our eyes. But we’ve never been to Legoland, right? Legoland is kind of like a mystery. We know that it exists. We read about it in advertisements. There is proof that it is real. We know people who have gone there. We hear about how great it is and we look forward to going there. Legoland is kind of like heaven. We know heaven exists. We read about it in the Bible. We know people who have gone there. Jesus tells us about it because He has been there. We need to have something called faith–believing what God tells us in His Word is true.
I had never thought about it that way. It was such a simple concept that I couldn’t believe I had never thought of it before.
But as the Lord says in Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, let us reason together,” I would have never come to that reassurance from the Lord if I had not sat with my son and reasoned over the things of the Lord with him.
I invite you to reason (not argue!) over the Gospel with your fellow believers. I bet you will see some great truths unfold before your eyes!