May God help us in our ministry to Christian children this year and may our prayer be the prayer of Paul in Ephesians 3:16: "I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith."
May God through the Holy Spirit strengthens us to be faithful workers in the harvest fields and lead many children to faith in Christ and help many Christian children to grow spiritually.
Dr.
Sam Doherty of Child Evangelism Fellowship says:
"I trust that God will enable you to help Christian children to grow as you
feed and nurse the new born babes He has committed to you.
You are the nurse. Nursing a child (both physically and spiritually) is often difficult
and frequently inconvenient, but it can be very worthwhile and rewarding both
in this
world
and the next.
“Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take
this child away and nurse
him for me, and I will give you your wages.’
So the woman took the
child and nursed him. And the child grew. .
.” (Exodus 2 v9, 10a).
The Bible is the food or milk which helps the child to grow. But it needs to be given in an attractive and drinkable form. “As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of
the word, that you may
grow thereby” (1 Peter 2 v2).
The Holy Spirit is the supervisor, the helper, “the doctor” and the One who gives power and ability to the “nurse.”
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;
and you shall be witnesses to Me in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1 v8).
And we pray that the result will be—growth.
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.” (2 Peter 3 v18).
The danger is
that if the child is not nursed properly he might “stumble and fall” and
become, spiritually, like Mephibosheth, the child who was dropped by his nurse
and was crippled in both feet for the rest
of his life. (2 Samuel 4 v4).
As we pray and work we trust God that the children will
grow up in Christ and become mature believers. Let
us join Paul in saying -
“Him we preach, warning every man and
teaching every man in all
wisdom, that we may present every man perfect
in Christ Jesus. To
this end I also labor, striving according to His
working which works in me mightily.” (Colossians 1:28,29)"
