As a Christian mother, all I want for Wilbur is to grow up to love God with all his heart, to know God as a friend, to serve Him with his life, to do God's will everyday. It won't matter then how long I nurse Wilbur, whether I allow him to self wean, or whether I wean him, it won't matter if I rocked him to sleep every night, or whether I had him CIO, it won't matter if he is vaccinated or not, all that will matter is that he knows who God is and how to live for Him.
The question I have asked myself numerous times is how? How can I give Wilbur a foundation right now that will lead him to knowing God? I can read to him everyday from the Bible, I can teach him to pray before meals and bedtime. I can teach him to memorize scripture, I can fill his head with songs about God. Those are all good things, things I should be doing everyday, but they won't do a thing if I do not show him, in a dynamic manner, who God is.
How do I show him who God is? First, I can tell him who God is to me. Tell him what God has done for me. Tell him when God answers my prayer. Tell him what I have learned about God in my personal quiet time. Tell him that God loves him. Tell him that God loves me, even when I mess up.
An even better what to show him who God is, is to be God to him. I can hear you now, 'What? That is crazy, you can't be God, no one can be God but God Himself.' To that, I say true, so so true, but in the Bible, we see characteristics of God, we see how God parents us, we see how God loves, we see how He is patient, we see how He relates to us, we see how he trains us and disciplines us in His love.
In this series, I am going to show you all the ways that God has shown me how to be the first God that Wilbur sees. I obviously don't refer to myself as God, because even though I am learning from God, I am not God, I never will be God, I do not strive to be God. I only strive to be a mommy, a mommy who loves the Lord, and loves her family, and tries to love her family the way God does.
