Jesus loves me –
why does Jesus want the children to come to him? If we take the verses and put them in ordinary
English we have:
“I know that
Jesus loves me because the bible tells me that we are weak and he is strong and
he says he wants the children to come to him.”
I asked you once
if you remembered your baptism. If you grew up in this church you may not
because you probably were baptized when you were a really little child. When you were baptized I told you everybody
in the church was asked if they would promise always be like Jesus and love you
and do everything they can to be sure you grow up remembering Jesus loves you.
They all said yes they would.
Now, here is a surprise. Did you know that as far as Jesus is concerned
all those adults, me, your parents, all the adults who were in that church when
you were baptized, no matter how old they are, are still children of God
because God made us. We are all God’s children. We are always growing up to be
stronger and better followers of Jesus.
That makes that
promise by all those adults to love you and do everything to be sure you grow
up knowing Jesus loves you so important. We may be business people, nurses,
doctors, salesmen, school teachers, scientists, race car drivers, you name it,
but all those things are the different jobs we do. But everyone who believes in
Jesus knows He calls us to do another very special job, and it is the same job
for everyone. It is the job we promised you when you were baptized.
That job is to
love all God’s children and do everything we can to be sure all of them grow up
to better follower of Jesus just like the song says. That is really our biggest
and most important job; and remember as you grow it will become your job too.
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