Do you today recognize this child as a gift of God and give heartfelt thanks for God’s blessing?
Do you now dedicate your child to the Lord who gave him to you all in the hope that they will belong wholly to God?
Do you pledge as parents that, with God’s fatherly help, you will bring up your child in the discipline and instruction of the Lord, making every reasonable effort, with patience and love, to build the Word of God, the character of Christ and the joy of the Lord into his life?
Do you promise to provide, through God’s blessing, for the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs of your child, looking to your own heavenly Father for the wisdom, love and strength to serve him and not use him?
Do you promise, God helping you, to make it your regular prayer that, by God’s grace, your child will come to trust in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of his sins and for the fulfillment of all his promises to Levi, even eternal life; and in this faith follow Jesus as Lord and obey his teachings?
Levi, together with your parents, who love you dearly, and these people who care about the outcome of your faith, I dedicate you to God, surrendering together with them all worldly claims upon your life, in the hope that you will belong wholly to God for ever.
