One thing to watch for when assessing
a person's spiritual fitness for ministry is how he or she relates to children.
Put a child in the room and watch. This is what Jesus did to make his point. Children are the litmus test to expose the
presence of pride.
You might think that the main thing
Jesus would do is to say, “Don’t be proud, become like children.”
He did say essentially that in Matthew 18:3, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you
will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
But he said something else even more
astonishing. When Jesus saw that His
disciples were arguing over which of them was the greatest, “He sat down and
called the twelve. . . .And he took a child and put him in the midst of them,
and taking him in His arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever receives one such child
in My name receives Me.”
Therefore, how we deal with children
is a signal of our fellowship with God.
Something is deeply wrong in the soul when one does not stop to love and
hold a child.
Therefore, it may be good to call to
mind the ways Jesus related to children.
May the Lord teach us this profound
truth—that loving children in the name of Christ, is loving God.
It is more: It is welcoming and receiving and communing
with God. Nursery work and children's ministry “in the name of Christ”
is no small wonder!
Cherishing them, protecting them, teaching them, guiding
them and loving them is something that will get the attention and blessing of
God upon them and all of us!
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