The Gingerbread Man...

~The Gingerbread Man~

The book I read to the children this morning!

      I decided this morning I was going to read my children a story before we started school! Just for something new, different, and fun!!  Yes, The children just loved it!  It was a highlight. 

       I was rather intrigued with my children and their thought pattern as I read this book to them. I found it really interesting so I decided to share!  It really blessed my heart! 

       As the little boy is suppose to watch the oven and when the gingerbread man starts to smell done he is to call for his Grandma who is working in the garden but instead he opens the oven door to take a peek! In that moment the gingerbread man runs out of the stove and outside. My youngest looks at me with the biggest eyes and says, "O no, Mom did he run away for good? That little boy was so bad. He disobeyed his Grandma!" 

      They thought it was funny how the gingerbread man kept chanting, "Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!" 

      As we got to the fox and the gingerbread man had to keep getting closer to the fox my children said, "Mom, that fox is lying he can hear that gingerbread man! And God don't like when we lie." 

      I told them, "They are so right and that Satan does that to us. He lies, and tries to deceive us until he has got us totally wound up and under his control just like the fox he lured, lied and deceived the gingerbread man so that he could have him all to himself. And thats what Satan wants to do with us."

The children looked at me with big eyes and said, "But mom, we don't like Satan we want to always be with God and in His control!"  

       I told them that, that makes me happy and if they always remember this story and always keep God first in their life and always let God have full control then although Satan still lies, deceives, and lures them (us) that all they have to do is talk to God about it and ask God to take care of Satan for them! And to tell Satan that God is in control and there is no room for him in their life!"

       I was amazed how I was just going to read a fun little book  and how it turned out to be such a big lesson to not only my children but to me as well.