And a Child Shall Lead Them

Since our arrival here almost two weeks ago I have been reading and re-reading the book of Philippians.  At the same time I am also looking at a new commentary “Cohick, Lynn H., Philippians, The Story of God Bible Commentary; Grand Rapids, MI; Zondervans 2013.”  After looking at the title I felt it was worth the read to see how much about the story of God can be gleaned from the book of Philippians with only four chapters.  I am not ready to give a final conclusion but I will say I have been enjoying reading  the book of Philippians and the commentary as well.

There is some text that keeps coming back to me and that is “³ Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. ⁴ Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. ⁵ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, Philippians 2:3-5 (ESV)” The reason for me is many people keep saying to us, “You all are special people who will take these children in and make them your own especially more with the children being deaf.”  I have to say it would be easy to become bloated with pride but that is not why we are doing this because if we were it would not be giving God any Glory and I do not want to rob God of any Glory.

As a minister I would not ask anyone to do something I would am not willing to do myself.  God and Christ commanded us to love one another because Love is of God.  Another thing God told us to do was to take care of the Widows and the fatherless.  If each person would really apply the teaching of the Bible to their own lives, I wonder how many orphans there would be today?  How many widows would be wondering where their next meal was coming from?  Be honest with yourself about this.  I am not boasting but these little children have really touched us here.  They all want a family and they are so starved for attention and we are getting such a joy and blessing doing what God has commanded us to do. To God be the Glory.

Please do not say we are special people because we are doing this.  We are just following the direction and leadership of God and doing what He has commanded us to do.  Sit beside one of these children and give them a toy or let them play a game on your pad.  It brings such joy to them and as we sit there we think of how much we have and how little they have and makes us want to cry.  

One young man today we let play on one of the Kindle’s we brought.  The other children were in the pool and because he is so young and has some developmental delay he does not get to get in the pool; however when we told him he was going to go with us and play on the kindle he got so excited because he got to play on the Kindle with no other children standing around competing for their turn and pushing him aside or taking it from him.  For an hour it was just him and that small item and it just made his day.

Sometimes it’s a little game or toy that will put a smile on a child face but always a kind word, some attention and a little love.  Try it out for yourself, but I warn you it is addictive.   Jesus love the little children of the world, red, yellow, black or white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the children of the world.  Being a Christian’s we are supposed to be Christ like and love all the children of the world they are our future.