Jesus And Little Children 4/21/2018

Good Morning,

May your day be blessed with enough to eat. May your day be safe and your heart be filled with love from above. I just sat down with a cup of Door County Peanut Butter Crunch Coffee next to me and it is time to write.

Yesterday I was listening to a Christian news program on the radio while driving to work. The radio news announcer was informing the world that a new law was being enforced in a certain country. ( I will not name the country to avoid giving those readers living there any problems) It was reported that the country is forbidding Christians from taking their children to church in hopes of curbing the
spread of Christianity.

This did not sit well with my soul and I am asking all who read this to take a moment to pray. The world's most precious commodity are the children given to us. The basic ability to meet and embrace God together as a family is being taken away. Time for prayer please!

For those of us who are free to worship and raise our families in Christianity we must make it our priority to do so. I am seeing way too many substitutes for church. Sunday sports, laziness, potential weather issues, the ability to go to the church of pajamas at home watching pod casts are all robbing our children of true worship experiences. We are showing them that God and church are an option to life. Once God becomes an option, He really is no option at all. I have three portions of Scripture  I want to share today and I am asking that you read them, share them, and absorb them. I believe they are an urgent matter of the heart.

Mark 10:13-20 New International Version (NIV)

The Little Children and Jesus

¹³ People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴ When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁵ Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” ¹⁶ And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

Matthew 18:6 New International Version (NIV)

Causing to Stumble

⁶ “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Deuteronomy 6 New King James Version (NKJV)6 
“Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, ² that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. ³ Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’^[a]
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!^{[b] 5} You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
⁶ “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. ⁷ You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ⁸ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Choose this day whom you serve.

Marty