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 My 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.
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: March 30, 2005.
Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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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 My 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.
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: March 30, 2005.
Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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Please forward these messages to your friends and encourage them to subscribe. The "Dial Daily Bread" Web site resides at: http://1888message.org/
To subscribe send an e-mail message with "subscribe" in the body of the message to: dailybread@1888message.org
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Robert J. Wieland's inspirational "Dial Daily Bread" messages are availalbe via e-mail to anyone who wishes to receive a daily portion of uplifting Good News. "Dial Daily Bread" is FREE. Due to travel or other circumstances, there may be intervals when "Dial Daily Bread" will not be sent.
