I don’t know what it is about folded laundry that drives Tyler crazy. If I leave the room with nicely folded piles of clothes on the floor, when I return they are all in one big heap! It’s so funny because Tyler likes it when I pull the warm clothes out of the dryer. He jumps on them and buries his face into them. I’ve started folding the clothes during his nap because if he’s awake, he makes a bee-line over to the pile and abruptly shakes it out and then crawls away. Such a funny little dude!

It’s been a great week with Tyler. It seems that every day he is maturing more and learning something new. When I was reading him some books tonight before bedtime I was thinking about how Tyler is so precious and so beautiful–He is a gift from the Lord, but he still needs Jesus to be Lord of his life. On Bobby’s blog this week he wrote about Tyler’s birthday and how Tyler has sin and that he is praying for God to save him. One of our students even left a comment saying that he is praying for Tyler to become a Christian.

I was really touched by that because spending all my time with Tyler, it’s easy to see how sweet he is but acting out his sin is becoming more obvious. The baby professional books and websites say he won’t understand right from wrong till he’s three years old, but I think they are kidding themselves. We can’t force Tyler to become a Christian. And we can’t just expect that because we both are and are raising him to know who God is will ensure that he will surrender to the Lord. I was realizing tonight that we need to be faithful to raise him in the “way he should go” and always pray, every day for his salvation.

Psalm 53 was the Psalm-of-the-Day over at Godsongmusic and verses 2-3 really stood out to me:

God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. Everyone has turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Little children seem so sweet and innocent, but that cannot save them. They are not inherently good, in fact we are sinful from conception on (Psalm 51:5) and in need of a Savior. God looks down on earth for someone who is seeking him, but he doesn’t find anybody because on our own we cannot seek Him. I’m reminded of John 15:5 where Jesus says, “Apart from Me you can do nothing.” I want this to be a lesson that I can pass on to Tyler, my dependence on the Lord. His salvation is the biggest thing I can give up to the Lord.

Sometimes I can fool myself into thinking that there are things I can do on my own. Salvation, big life changes–I definitely need God to do those, but day-to-day things I’ve got covered. But I can’t do anything apart from Him, not even laundry. I think that a lot of the time we don’t want to depend on him because it makes us feel bad about ourselves. We think, “But, I can do some things really well, I don’t want to be weak and lame, like I’m not capable of doing something.” But this isn’t about us, it’s about God. If we are His children, everything we do should be in His strength and to give Him glory.