Pastor Bobby - Part 2

Every morning, I remind my son Bobby to wet his hair in the back, because it has the tendency to stick up in the air like a chicken. Most mornings he listens and comes down the stairs with a perfectly wet down head. Except for this morning. I looked at him and said, "Bobby, you need to wet your head. Your hair is sticking up in the back." Anticipating my comments, Bobby looked me straight in the eyes and calmly replied, "Well Mom, I think God wants me to wear it like this today. That way, if someone looks at me and says something to me about it, I can tell them God cares about someone's heart, not about what someone looks like on the outside." He then paused and thoughtfully said, "I am pretty sure that's what God told me to do." (Mama is Melting...)

Literally two minutes from needing to walk out the door to the bus stop at this point, I realized what a significant spiritual moment this really was. So I hugged him and said, "Okay honey, that's so awesome. You know there's a verse in the Bible about that. Let me find it for you." So I grabbed his cell phone, opened up the YouVersion Bible app, and found 1 Samuel 16:7, which says:

"The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." 

Bobby loved the verse, so he told me he was going to memorize it. And he meant now. It did not matter that he had a bus to catch. As I stood there holding his backpack and lunch bag while he put on his sneakers, listening to him say the verse over and over again, I was utterly amazed. How incredible, my son is about to miss the bus because he wants to memorize Scripture! Not too many twelve year old boys are like this one. I am so blessed to have this gentle young man living in my home with me. What a privilege it is to raise him up in the Lord. My precious Pastor Bobby.