Children Brought To Jesus

LITTLE CHILDREN WERE BROUGHT TO JESUS FOR HIM TO PLACE HIS HANDS ON THEM AND PRAY FOR THEM. Matthew 19.13.

When our two boys and two girls were small, my wife and I began to take them to Jesus in prayer, just as our parents and grandparents did to their children. What a wonderful thing it is to have godly parents from whom you can learn through words and by sight! You who are from Christian families, do not neglect or disregard your wonderful spiritual privileges. Practise them faithfully and pass them on to the next generation. I know some of you are first generation Christians and hence have lost out on such a wonderful spiritual heritage. Don’t be disheartened; begin a new heritage for your children and they will be blessed and they will bring blessing to others!

Take your children to the Lord Jesus Christ everyday and many times a day. They need Him and His help, today more than anytime before. Every morning, my wife and I specially pray for our four grown-up children, their spouses and also for their children, naming all before God. We commit them to the Lord Jesus Christ and His keeping. We seek His blessing not only on each one of them but also on all those they may come in contact with during the day. Three of them are doctors and treat/operate on patients. We tell the Lord how critical is their part in the life and health of people who place them in their hands. As doctors they need wisdom, skill and ability which come from God alone to do their best for these poor people who trust them. The same is true of all those who in any profession or work, get involved with people and their affairs!

We pray for the young mothers in each of our families. We ask the Lord to give them wisdom and enablement from above to pray and bring each of their children in the fear and favour of the Lord and the people. It is no mean feat or easy task today to rear children who are far more energetic, active and bent on doing what their parents never did at their age! To discipline or not to discipline is itself a big problem to them because the knowledge of the age is at logger-heads with the wisdom of God!

But make no mistake, the parents who take their children, young or old, to the Lord Jesus Christ everyday will find that He never fails to place His hands on them and bless them. Children who are thus prayed for and nurtured before the Lord, before their very eyes and in their hearing, will not easily turn away from Him. Countless men and women will testify to the fact that it was their fathers’ prayers and mothers’ tears (and that of even their grandparents) that kept them from waywardness and in godliness.

I still can hear the loud cry of my old mother who prayed for her sons and daughters by name, though she went to be with the Lord at the age of 84 in the year 1990! The disciples prevented children from being brought to Jesus. But today many parents neglect or do not find time to bring their children to Jesus regularly to be blessed. How tragic it is for the dear children for whom the parents do everything else!

Pray with me: Dear Lord Jesus, as I bring myself to You each day in prayer, I bring my children too and even all the children I know. Stretch forth Your ever-willing and loving hands and bless each one! Amen.