Halle has looked up to Brady her entire life. For as frustrated as her do-it-herself nature gets when he tries to help her with… well, anything, she wants to be just like him in so many ways, and she just adores him. So I wasn’t surprised when things played out the way they did. Although, I thought it would take longer.
Brady is nothing if not blunt and matter-of-fact in the way he presents information. After he accepted Jesus into his heart, any mention of heaven or God or being a Christian lead him to discuss who in our family is and isn’t going to heaven. The main person that he brought up is Halle. I had to constantly try to tell him the right way to talk about it and not to kind of rub it in her face.
Well, it turned out to be a good thing, essentially. Just 8 days after Brady became a Christian, Halle was compelled. After reading the Bible before bedtime, she was very upset and started crying. She even sent Brady away and wanted to be alone with me.
“When is God going to be in my heart?”
“Well, Sweetheart, He promises to be in your heart when you believe that you’re a sinner and know you can’t get to heaven without believing that Jesus died to forgive you of your sins.”
I again did my best to explain it in terms she could understand, but without leaving out the important details. She climbed into bed and we prayed together. She prayed on her own first, asking God to come into her heart amidst thanking Him for trees and a good day. I reminded her of Jesus and how He died for her sins and prayed along with her about those things.
Brady was very excited. Now our whole family will be in heaven together!
Well, except for his baby cousin who is less than a year old. I guess he has his work cut out for him.
Our Sunday School class just talked about this very subject today. <3 this!!
Not to quench his zealousness but maybe it would be a good time to introduce the concept of the age of reckoning to Brady. ;o)
Yay Halle! So sweet! :)
Jinka Knight Bloom, I seriously almost mentioned that in my post, that I didn’t yet want to have that theological discussion with Brady. But, I’m also not sure how many people reading would understand that conversation. (Plus, I’m not convinced Halle is too young or that Brady would do well with that information.)