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The conversation of a Ugandan boy of 11 with an 11-year-old from the U.S. puts childhood into proper perspective.  The Ugandan boy, an orphan, has been touched by the powerful revival which has been happening in his country for several years now.  After meeting the young boy from the U.S., the Ugandan child asked him, “What are you going to do in life?”  This was not a question of childhood play.  He was completely serious.  The other child was amazed and asked how was he supposed to know what he would do in life—he was only a child!  The boy from Uganda replied, “You’re eleven years old and you don’t yet know what you’re supposed to be in life?!”  He really was amazed.  You see the Ugandan child has been under the influence of a move of God’s Spirit in his nation that has had a profound impact on his country.  Unlike the boy from the West, he has been taught that life is not about him and his pleasure; but rather it’s about the plan of God for him.  He’s planning and is now taking steps to become what God has created him to be.

Before you dismiss this as just a child’s aspirations, or perhaps as the result of over-zealous parents and teachers who have “crammed” the Bible down his throat, you better consider history.  It is a fact of history recorded in the Bible that God wants children to know His plan for their life; and to prepare early for that plan. Continue reading →