OzThoughts –Monday 15th September 2008.

OzThoughts –Monday 15th September 2008.

When our kids were small, a print of a painting of Jesus with two children immediately appealed to us. I do not know who painted it. We immediately decided to buy it as one of those “must have” purchases. The kids in the painting looked like our kids. The girl was about 6 and had blonde hair which hung to her shoulders or there about. The boy was a similar age to our son and his hair was again similar to our son’s, being a little darker than my daughter’s and the girl’s in the painting.

One of the other things that attracted us was that it expressed very clearly the value of children to Jesus. It was clear that there was love being exchanged in the relationship. It was in the stance, the look and the touch. It said much to us about the value of our children but beyond that it told of the value of all children to Jesus. It was something we already knew well but the painting reinforced that message.

My wife has recalled a number of times how when a group of women, the wives of Rotarians met in our home, one of the women chose to stay back after the others had left. She expressed how during the gathering she was not able to take her eyes of the picture which hung in the room where they met. She thanked my wife for what the picture had said to her.

PRAYER:

Heavenly Father, thank you for the many ways that you remind us of your love for each one of us, no matter how young or old we are. Thank you that through Jesus we see your love so clearly. May we experience that love today and have an overflow to share with others we meet. Amen


Mark 10 (The Message)

13The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them.
14The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: "Don't push these children away. Don't ever get between them and me. These children are at the very centre of life in the kingdom.
15Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in."
16Then, gathering the children up in his arms, he laid his hands of blessing on them.

[Listen: Chatswood Salvation Army Singing Company:
http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music2/mus_3639.mp3

I think, when I read that sweet story of old,
When Jesus was here among men,
How he called little children as lambs to his fold,
I should like to have been with them then.
I wish that his hands had been placed on my head,
That his arm had been thrown around me,
And that I might have seen his kind look when he said:
Let the little ones come unto me!

Yet still to his footstool in prayer I may go,
And ask for a share in his love;
And if I now earnestly seek him below,
I shall see him and hear him above,
In that beautiful place he is gone to prepare
For all who are washed and forgiven;
And many dear children are gathering there,
For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.

But thousands and thousands who wander and fall
Never heard of that heavenly home;
I should like them to know there is room for them all,
And that Jesus has bid them to come.
I long for the joys of that glorious time,
The sweetest and brightest and best,
When the dear little children of every clime
Shall crowd to his arms and be blessed.
Author: Jemima Luke (1813-1906)
The Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 794

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