the other night i decided after pray that i would take my boys down the beach and we would pray to Jesus. On the way i asked the lord to show me how to teach my boys about God so that they would understand.
as we stood on the beach i saw a long path about 2kms long heading towards a clock tower that is covered in bright lights. i said to my two young boys see that tower it is like the lord and we will follow the path to the light. to start of with the path that was formed by the waves of the ocean was very wide. i said to my boys on the left side of the path it is covered with large amounts of seaweed and if you walk into it you will fall over. on the right side of the path is the sea so if you walk into it you will get drenched in water. we started our walk not knowing what was ahead of us on the path but maintained constant eyes on the tower with the light. shortly we came to a gully in our path that was filled with ocean water. i said to my boys shall we walk to the left or the right of the path or jump over the gully after a discussion we all felt it was better to stay on the path as it was dark. so we all jumped over the path and only a small part of our right foot landed in the water. as the walk went on the path became smaller and smaller, more gullies apeared but were only small and we could jump over them easy. then the path started to disapear in the darkness around us but we all agreed as long as we walked towards the tower light we would make it. nearly at the end of our journey. on the right side of the tower i saw to flames start twirling in the air which was a man practising a circus act. but straight away i said to the boys "who is staring at that light instead of the tower and we all had been and our walk started heading towards that instead of the true light that was in front of us. so we agreed that this light was a false light trying to direct us from the true light. we made it to the tower light and we were able to put this parable towards spiritual understanding of our own walk with christ and what our true focus will be.
this was a miricle for us as i normally am unable to explain biblical principles to children. we had a prayer and talk about it for about week after and my boys still bring it up.
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