A Forever Kind of Love

For the past several weeks we have been challenged at RCC to live a lifestyle of worship all day, every day.  This last Sunday during services I was a witness to something truly beautiful.  It is an image I hope my mind will not soon forget and a living testimony to me as a parent of the role I have in teaching my children about worship.  It is a role that needs to be lived out instead of talked about or debated about.

Several weeks ago some new friends of ours from RCC returned home from China with twin two year old little girls.  They are absolutely precious!  It has been so fun to read about their journey on their family blog.  I was so touched by their story and the realization that this family was giving these precious girls a new life and so many wonderful opportunities.  More importantly though, these girls now had a forever home and would experience a forever kind of love.

 This past Sunday during the musical part of the service, I was watching the lyrics from the back row and it was such a sweet time.  People were focused and at times they would lift a hand in worship.  Then I saw it….the father of the twins raised his right hand in praise while holding one of the twins with his left hand.  The next thing I knew her little hand went up as high as it could and from my vantage point with the lights dimmed, all I could see was a silhouette of the back of their heads and their hands raised in praise and worship.  It touched me. 

These girls may have eventually been adopted and given a forever home, but our friends were doing so much more than that.  They were giving them a forever kind of love, an eternal love that can only come from Jesus.  Because of their choice to open up their hearts and home to love these orphans, these girls can know Jesus Christ and have an opportunity to have a relationship with him someday.  Already they are being taught about his love and how to worship Him in spirit and in truth because our friends aren’t just telling them about Jesus, they are living out being Jesus and how to worship.  Amazing.

I was challenged in that moment to go and do likewise with my own children.  I was challenged to live out my worship in the small details of my day, every moment of everyday.  I want my children to not only be loved, but to experience that forever kind of love that can only come from a relationship with Jesus Christ.  That is a love worth celebrating.  Happy Valentines Day!