Dear Friends of �Dial Daily Bread�:
Someone was clever who said that God first made man, then found a better way and made woman, but His third way was the best: He made little children. Indeed, they are the most delightful creatures in God�s universe.
The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ loves them, too; although He is infinite and knows everything in advance, still somehow He finds them intriguing. An innocent little child can plumb the reaches of infinity and come up with something that is interesting to the Godhead and heavenly intelligences. We don�t know how it will be, but in God�s New Jerusalem the cruel wolves, leopards, and lions will be tamed by �a little child [who] shall lead them� (Isa. 11:6; the Hebrew word implies to �drive�
these ex-ferocious beasts). Down here below there are commercial enterprises that subsist on little children�s creativity such as the �Peanuts� cartoonists.
Leave it to Satan to come up with child warriors in Africa, placing AK 47�s in their little arms and teaching them to shoot remorselessly. Thoughtful Africans are appalled at a horror that has almost never cursed the planet in its historical past. The three �d�s� proliferate--disease, despair, and devastation. Many of the 300,000 child soldiers were cruelly abducted.
Can any of them be redeemed? Edith Ssempala, Uganda�s ambassador to the United States says of the thousands in Northern Uganda (where I once served as a missionary): �The youngest can be rescued by healing the emotions with love.� And the older ones? �Ah,� she said; �that is not so easy.� We still believe the story of the cross can heal if it is told truthfully.
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