When you give a little boy a Bible, he’s going to want to take it every where he goes.
When he takes it to Bible class, they’re going to sing “I love to pat the Bible, the Bible, the Bible…”
When he learns that song, he’s going to sing it all the time.
When he sings it all the time, he’s going to want to know more about what the Bible says.
When he wants to know more about what the Bible says, his mama and daddy are going to tell him to do what God says, like Noah and the apostles, and to be brave, like Abraham and Paul.
When he knows he has to obey and be brave, he’s going to want to know why.
When he wants to know why, they’re going to tell him about Heaven and how beautiful it is going to be.
When they tell him about how great Heaven is going to be, he is going to want to know why in the world he’s worthy enough to go there.
When he wants to know why he is worthy enough to go there, they’re going to tell him about Jesus and how He was willing to die on the cross for him even though He never messed up.
When he hears about Jesus, he’s going to really fall in love with Him.
When he falls in love with Him, his parents are going to tell him that he has to become one of His children by being baptized into His body.
When they tell him that he has to be baptized, he’s going to ask them, “Why can’t I do it now?”
When he is baptized into Christ, he’s going to live his life for Him.
When he is living his life for Him, he will fall in love with a girl— a girl who was once given a Bible too and loves the Lord and serving Him, too.
When he falls in love with this girl, they will get married, start a family and make a huge impact in the Kingdom of Heaven.
When he is making a huge impact on the Church, he is leading and serving in so many different ways.
When he is leading and serving, his wife is standing right by his side through it all and leading and serving in her own ways.
When he has lived his life for the Lord and is a little old man laying on his death bed absolutely worn out from serving Him, he will tell his children and grandchildren to never ever give up and to serve Him always so when they pass from this life, they will all be together once again.
When he has passed from this life, he will come to those pearly gates and hear those words, “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord.”
The same is for little girls, too.
Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
