Back when I was in tenth grade, my mom told me that she had excepted Jesus in her heart. That she had become a Christian and was changing her life.
Now I didn’t think anything of it, she’s my mom and can do whatever she wants.
But the rest of us, her family, wasn’t making that change. We kept on with our drinking alcohol and some of us, doing drugs. But my dad did not like her becoming a Christian. He used to always come home drunk and complain about her being a Christian. Me and my brother would be in and out of jail and my sister was running the streets, doing drugs.
And every time we came to her about the problems in our lives, she would always say ”you should come to church with me” or “you need to read the Bible”. Essentially pointing us to Jesus. And we would always Say “no”. But she continued loving us (and praying for us), and just being our mom.
It was about fifteen years later, that me and my wife accepted Jesus in our hearts, and my brother about a year later. This made my mom the happiest person in the world. Even to the point of crying for several minutes straight, looking at a picture of me and my brother in front of a cross.
This makes me think of the scripture John 3:16 ”God so loved the world....”.
We are all of Gods favorite creation, but we are not all choosing to be his child. But God is patient and in long suffering in waiting for us to choose to be his children.
Numbers 14:18 says “The Lord IS long suffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but he by no means clears the guilty,...”.
Like my mom suffered 15 long years before me and my brother excepted Jesus in our hearts, so is it with God in his long suffering, waiting for us to except his sacrifice and choose to become his children.

God Is Good!! And may he bless you all always.

Pastor Perry Stands