No greater joy

3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Today I was changing the laundry around as Katrina was watching Sesame Street.
Elmo's World was on and he was on a trip with a dinosaur.
Pretty soon I heard,
"150 million years ago blah, blah, blah."
I was very disheartened to hear the dinosaur telling Elmo
that the dinosaurs lived on the earth that many years ago.
I began to consider if and what I would say to Katrina in regards to this information.
Sesame Street ended and I was out in the "TV area" with her, folding clothes.

I said, "Trinie, did you hear what the dinosaur said to Elmo about how long ago dinosaurs lived on the earth?
Well, that is a lie.
The Bible teaches us that God made the dinosaurs and we know from the Bible that the earth is not that old, ok?"
She accepted it and then said,
"Well, Mom, why did the dinosaur tell that to Elmo, then?"
I explained to her that it is a lie that people believe and it is like when the serpent lied to Eve in the garden
(a story she has heard time and time again, especially recently at Cubbies).

Now this is where the story gets good, so stay tuned...

Katrina said,
"Oh, I know a story about that. It is about a man named Joe. Joe had a lot of sheep and cows and
goats and one day Satan asked God if he could hurt Joe."
When she had told me the name of the man in her story, at first, I thought it was a story she had made up.
I soon realized she was telling me the story of JOB, not Joe, from the Bible.
She went on to tell me in impressive detail the story of Job and how his servants kept
coming to him and reporting such devastating news about his livestock and houses and even his children.
She is a great story-teller, including lots of emotion and detail.

My eyes filled with tears.
Tear of joy.
I have no greater JOY than to hear my children walk in truth.
3 John 1:4

I asked Katrina where she had heard that story.
A few years ago already Uncle Shawn and Aunt Leanne gave Katrina a Bible story CD packet.
It has 8 CDs of Bible stories and one CD of Bible songs.
When Katrina goes to sleep every night she enjoys listening to a CD.
Many times she chooses to listen to one of the Bible story CDs.
She told me she heard that story on her CD last night.

This opened up a fairly long discussion of what happened to Job and how he, by God's grace,
blessed the Lord through it all.
I told her what Job said,
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away,
blessed be the name of the Lord."
(Job 1:21)
I told her that is where the song we like to sing comes from and we sang it for several minutes.

Lord Jesus, thank You so very much for this beautiful moment with Katrina this morning.
Your Word is absolutely true.
Nothing has brought me more joy than these types of interactions with her.
Our prayer for both Katrina and Samuel is that they treasure Your Word in their hearts
so they do not sin against You. (Psalm 119:11)
Please continue to use every means possible to do that.