If there will be a resurrection, an accounting to God for our days and for our children — and there will be — then we must be ready. If He has entrusted us with this charge of raising our children for His glory — and He has — then we must complete our task with diligence. We will only do so if we understand that someday, this story we are living will be told and our lives of faithfulness will be a testimony of our worship and belief in Him.

Our hope is in Jesus. And because of Jesus, our labor is not in vain. We can have hope knowing that God sees us and has appointed us to steward the lives of little ones whose souls will have eternal impact.

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