God’s Greatest Disciples:
Proverbs 23:24, “He that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.”
Without effort and without great thought a child will bring the spirit of God and all His passions to bear with the simplest of words. Who is sincere? Who is it that brings to us the truth and an honest disclosure of God’s character? And men shall say, “He is only a child!”
How than can a child do so well? How than does a child come to understand truth with a purity of singleness, and simplicity of heart? We burden ourselves with plow in hand, with seeder to follow and reaper to attend on that day of harvest. Yet our results are meager at best, yielding but little.
The grandest of virtue comes from the mouth of a child as naturally as the heat of the sun warms from above. Is there a clue that can be defined? Is there a law that must be observed? To a child the present and future appear to be smoothly joined and easily distinguished from what has been. Oh the mind of youth!
We drag the corpses of men from the graves and command them to speak. Do we not learn from our yesterdays? Have we dazzled ourselves with the glory of our own thought and invention? We wish to rise into the heavens; to go beyond what is reasonable; to follow that which is opposed to right; and search out that which is immoral. And because of this we fail in all our efforts, dragging our feet in the present, strain at the future, and only reluctantly will we submit to God.
Today’s child comes without a blush of red on their face, will admit to nothing, and claim their innocence to everything. Sleep now little one this night and prepare for tomorrow, for this I am sure; when you awake your present thoughts will be veiled in each and every half-hidden smile. These are God’s little darlings, precious little children, a sobering story yet to be told. They seem to comprehend all, and with few words seem able to explain every mystery of life.
A child makes no application to morals, seems to know his own spirit; learns by lesson; and measures only in silence. They seem to understand enough to reach out with both hands for that bright and morning star. They are capable of piercing with intellectual profoundness the deep things of God achieving that which men only pray to attain. But who are these children? They are God’s channel to an adult world, a mirror of His character. They are neither meddlesome nor burdensome, reflecting only that which God hopes us all to be.
If there is to be any love at all between man and God; between husband and wife, the child born of their conception will be that visible proof that love does exists. And we shall say with one voice “Only because they are children, do they understand.”
Phillip Laspino www.seekfirstwisdom.com