DEAR GOD: I’m a little boy, just eight years old. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, and I’m worried. Maybe you can help me with some of these things I don’t understand. Of course, you know that I have been going to Bible study for a long time, and I’ve learned to love you and the Bible, and I love my teacher for all she has taught me about you and about Jesus.
It’s about Mom and Dad that I have been wondering. I love them both with all my heart, and they love me, I know. And more than anything, I want to know that they are going to heaven when they die. They want me to go, for they‘ve told me so. They send me to Bible Study every Sunday morning, and then they come later to church. But why don’t Mom and Dad go to Bible Study, too? And Sunday night, when Johnny and Mary and their Mom and Dad go to church, my mom and dad either stay at home, go to movies, or visit friends. Is this all right, God?
Another thing, in Bible School I have learned how important it is to pray and thank you for our food and everything, but you know I’ve never heard my dad pray…is this all right, God? And my teacher says that it is important to study and worship you, and when I do get to go to church on Sunday night or Wednesday night, I don’t see her. Is this all right, God?
I guess I’m just kinda mixed up ‘cause I think Mom and Dad and my teacher are the best in the world. I want to be just like them when I grow up, and I just want to be sure they are doing the right things so we can live with you someday.
In Jesus’ name, Your friend, Billy.
“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ” ~ 1 Corinthians 11:1
