Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from a children’s chorus singing a Sunday School medley … Jesus Loves the Little Children … poignantly singing of just how much God loves His little children.
Oh how God loves His little ones ...
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Highlight Passage : … Luke 18:16 [ESV] ... 16 But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. … “
… Jesus shows the value in EVERY CHILD.
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Highlight Passage [Context] : … Luke 18:15-17 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus rebukes His disciples for inhibiting children from coming to Him.
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Reference Passage : … Matthew 19:13-15 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Matthew’s account of Jesus calling the little children to Himself as examples of who should enter God’s kingdom.
Reference Passage : … Mark 10:13-16[ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… The parallel passage from Mark about Jesus rebuking those who hindered the children from coming to Him.
Reference Passage : … John 3:16 [ESV] … 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son, that WHOEVER believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. … "
… And according to Jesus WHOEVER = CHILDREN !!
Reference Passage : … 2Timothy 3:16 [ESV] … 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, …
... Since all Scripture is God breathed, the words above, from Jesus Himself, testified by three separate NT authors about children coming to God, are ABSOLUTELY TRUE!!
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Elisa Morgan, AT THIS LINK shows how our culture/world seems to value the older over the younger, the bigger over the smaller, … the faster over the slower.
But not Jesus! … As we see clearly in parallel passages from three separate NT authors (see from Matthew, Mark, and Luke above), Jesus not only valued the little children, … He used their childlike faith in Him as examples for us more mature disciples of Jesus, … like you and me, … to make sure the little ones were able to come to Him.
And when God’s word says the same thing three times so clearly in HIs word, God is giving His disciples a clear word that we must not do anything to hinder any child of God from coming to Him. In John 3:16, Jesus said that “WHOEVER” desired to come to Him would be saved; and that includes babies or children, doesn’t it?
So, what does that say to God’s world about abortion? To me the three Scripture passages above are the clearest anti-abortion rebukes in the Bible, which from 2Tim 3:16, we know to be God-breathed truth. So, if we want anyone and everyone to have access into God’s kingdom, we must do all we can to make sure that we let the little ones come to the One Who created them for Himself (see/hear the linked medley of songs).
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for clearly calling Your disciples to do all we can to make sure the little ones can come to you.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to do all we can to insure God’s little ones can come to Him. … Amen
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