Heaven is Rejoicing!!

My kids have been really surprising me of late. They have been having conversations with each other, and me, about things that I never expected kids their age to be having. They are presently 6, 5, and 3. The conversation that has stuck in my mind the most because of its importance and what followed was last sunday night. I had picked them up from their mom's place and we were heading home...Robert (my youngest) started talking about Jesus; he understands that we can go to the sky (Heaven) and see Jesus, he asked when Jesus is going to come down and see the people. Now you can't really explain about the rapture in too much detail to a 3 yr. old..so i just said that Jesus will come someday, we just don't know when. My other 2 then started about Jesus, Heaven, and who will go to Heaven. I told them that not everyone will go to Heaven, only good people and they have to have Jesus in their heart. They wanted to know where bad people go..so I explained that bad people who don't have Jesusin their heart go to a place called hell. They wanted to know what hell was so I had to think fast about how I could explain that in a way they would understand it. I settled on telling them it was like a jail that if someone got sent there, they wouldn't get out ever again. Well they decided they wanted to be good people with Jesus in their hearts and wanted to know how they could do that. I told them they had to pray and ask Jesus to come into their hearts...they wanted to do that when we got home so I said we could. So when we went to bed I asked if they were sure they wanted to pray and they did...I explained what they had to do and led them thru a prayer of confession and they asked Jesus into their hearts. Since sunday they've wanted to pray before meals and at bed time....their diligence in prayer has made me realize just how much my prayer life has slacked off as of late....Thank-you God for reminding me.