“I want little children to come to Me, so never interfere with them when they want to come, for heaven’s kingdom realm is composed of beloved ones like these! …”
I wonder what letting the little children come unto Jesus means in your life?
You have an 11-year-old. She is invited to watch age-restricted movies with you because it makes her feel like part of the family, but to allow her to engage in church? No, that’s way over her head….let the little children come unto Me…
We had a seven year old tragically taken too soon, and I know her mom taught her the Way, but….there are other seven year-olds, eight, nine, ten…even eleven year-olds that play while their parents have church….and I wonder…already at the age of accountability….if they were to die today…would they go see Jesus…or have we done them a disservice by allowing them free-time instead of teaching them the Source of real freedom?
Let the little children come unto Me…
My heart is burdened for the souls of children at the age of accountability, whose parents boast of all the horror movies they have been brave enough to sit through, yet they are sent to play when it is church time….the child is mature enough when at home for things way beyond their maturity…but Church…no – waaaay over their heads….let the little children come unto Me…
If we really believed that teachers of the Word will be held to a higher standard at judgment day….and we really believe that there is no such thing as a junior Holy Spirit, we would invite the children to learn, to seek and to find Jesus at Church just as much as you would expect an adult prodigal to.
What if we are missing it?
What if we are wasting time and resources graced to us by eliminating an age group because parents insist on a break from their little and not-so-little ones?
Let the little children come unto Me…
Can we stop wasting precious time…we say Jesus is coming soon…does that not include time running out for your pre-teen?
We are missing it!! We are missing it big time!! Wake up, wake up o sleepers! Church is not a place for adult’s R&R and escapism!! Is this thing you call Christianity real in your life?
Let the little children come unto Me…