Little Children

"Let little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these." Sounds really loving and sweet those words of Jesus but he wasn't being patronising or sweet with these words, no, Jesus was speaking of the fact that children can have a direct relationship with Him and not through an intermediary. As parents, Sunday school workers, aunties, uncles or Christians in general it is important that we remind ourselves that our job is to point the way to Jesus, to highlight Him and to magnify Him in the lives of children, anything other than that and we are in danger of hindering them. After all they are heirs to Gods Kingdom too. In our morning service yesterday we saw the result of giving our children the space to express their relationship with God, we witnessed God speaking to them and their prophetic response. 

A wise educationalist once wrote that "Children are like arrows we fire into the future, the most we can hope for is that our aim is true." As a church family we have a responsibility for all the children that God has blessed us with, not just those that we can claim a biological connection with. A responsibility to magnify Jesus, to encourage their relationship with Him and helping them when they lose their way, yet always remembering  that sometimes they may do the same for us.