Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

When we talk about “child evangelism,” what do we mean? Merely
persuading children to profess to be Christians? Nominal church
members? Go through the rite of baptism? Have their names on a record
book? The temptations to life-hypocrisy today are enormous.

Jesus was a child of 12 when He witnessed His first Passover. Like all
children, He wondered what the killing of the Passover lamb meant. No
one could help Him, not even His mother. But His sinless mind was
gradually able to grasp the truth--the blood of billions of Passover
lambs could not wash away even one human sin. He sensed the meaning of
Psalm 40:6-8, “Lo, I come . . . to do Thy will, O God.” Someone holy,
undefiled, must give Himself to be “the Lamb of God.”

Through His young human soul there surged a great desire: “O Father,
let Me be the world’s ‘Passover Lamb’!” From that moment, the
divine/human Messiah in His childhood grew to be absorbed “in [His]
Father’s business” (Luke 2:49). John the Baptist caught Christ’s total
consecration at the age of 30 when he cried out, “Behold the Lamb of
God!” (John 1:29).

The age of 12 is still very significant. The Holy Spirit today is often
forced to by-pass older people because they quickly become full of
themselves and stay that way; children are sensitive to the call of
heaven to give themselves to the One who gave Himself for them--if only
someone can be humble enough to step aside and let Christ be revealed
to them.

May God give you and me the grace to reveal Him as He is in His agape
love, to children.

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