Covenant

I grew up watching baby dedications from the wooden pew, not really thinking too much about them.  I would laugh when the baby up there did something cute or feel sorry for the poor parents who could not get their kid to stop screaming for the 5 minutes they were in front of everyone.  To me it seemed more like a birth announcement to the whole church.  When it came time for us to "dedicate" our boy baby in front of our church family it felt weighty.  We were entering into a covenant-with God, each other, our boy and our church.

 

 

Here he is!  This was outfit # 2 for the morning...

They called us up at the end of the service.  We stood there with another couple and their boy as we were charged to raise our sons to worship their Creator.  We committed to this.  Our church family committed to help us in this.  Oh, how we will need their help as we so often forget what Jesus did and how that changes who we are and how we should live.  We are a people who have been redeemed and restored to our God.  We are made to live as children of God, fellow heirs with His Son.

A happy boy and his blessed parents

We don't have any photos of the actual event but one memory that will stick out forever is how he just stared at all the faces that were before him.  Then, during the prayer our boy was captivated by the man praying.  I hope he will grow to be captivated by his Savior

These were the words that were read.  We pray this will be on our hearts and in our home.
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise."                                                                 Deuteronomy 6:5-7