May 11 2025 … Jesus Loves Children …

May 11 2025 … Jesus Loves Children   …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with a children’s chorus singing  … Jesus Loves the Little Children, showing clearly that God loves all His children.

Jesus loved the little childrenl ... 

Highlight Passage: …  Genesis 29:35 … [NLT] … 

35 Once again Leah became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She named him Judah, for she said, “Now I will praise the Lord!” And then she stopped having children.            

…  Leah finally recognizes to praise God for her four sons.          

           

Highlight Passage (in context): …Genesis 29:31-35  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Leah, Jacob’s wife, has four sons and though being ignored by Jacob’s affection, finally felt the praise of God in her fourth and last child, Judah, who would ultimately be the forefather of Israel’s Messiah..                                                                             

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Highlight Passage (in context): … Psalms 127:3-5  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Solomon sings God’s wisdom about the blessing of having children. 

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 22:6  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Solomon, calls on parents to raise their children in the ways of the Lord.

Reference Passage: … Matthew 19:14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Matthew quotes Jesus as God loving the little children of the world as examples of what it takes to enter God’s kingdom.   

Reference Passage:… Mark 10:13-16  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… John Mark also writes about Jesus calling all who follow Him to Him with the attitude of surrender like a child coming to Him.                       

Reference Passage: …  Luke 18:15-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… also writes of Jesus’s command to all to come to him like the children did - with simple hearts of praise and love.   

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Tim Gustafson AT THIS LINK      … reflected on the attitude of a friend and mother who declared that she had a somewhat negative attitude about Mother’s Day, saying, “Being a mother was really the hardest thing I ever did.” 

And that was probably the attitude of Leah in the Highlight Bible Passage, cited above, having four sons by Jacob, who never showed any loving interest in Leah other than to father his children.   But God’s word (see remaining Scriptures above), including the words and commands from Jesus in three of the four Gospel authors, clearly declares that having children and raising them for the Lord’s will and His ways is a challenging, but a wonderful blessing, from God; and we are to treat it as such.  

So, for those, like myself and my wife, who have been blessed with children, I’m praying that we all raise them under the admonition of the the Lord in God’s word, giving them up to the Lord as blessings from, and to, Him.   

         

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for our daughters, whom it’s been a blessing to raise up and serve You, as they do now, raising their children to bless You.  

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all of us reading here, who have children, can - and will - raise them to honor and praise You, Lord.  … AMEN

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