Ministering to Kids

  Ministering to kids can sometimes be a daunting task. Whether it is to your own kids, or at church with a group of kids, you just have to plain admit that kids can sometimes push your buttons.

  Many times we tell these kids to act their age not thinking that they are indeed acting their age already. There is sometimes an energetic, squirmy force about kids that set us on edge. Maybe it is because we are jealous we don’t have the same energy ourselves. “Energy is wasted on the youth,” is how I have heard it put.

  Yet ministering to children is close to the heart of God.

Mark 10:13-14 – “And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.”

  If Christ is our example, which He is, maybe we should understand that children should be invested in, and not just seen as an irritation. The old statement, “children should be seen and not heard” is not really a nurturing godly attitude.

  Can investing in children bring you to the brink of insanity? Sometimes! Will it be worth it in the end? Yes! For of such is the kingdom of God.

  The next generation of Christianity depends upon this generation investing in children and raising them in the right way. If we do not invest in this generation there will arise a generation that does not know the Lord.

Judges 2:7-10 – “And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.”

  Such a prospect is a horrific picture of what happens to a people and a nation that does not invest in the next generation.

  Some people have a special gift in being enabled to deal with children, but if you don’t have this “special” gift don’t use that as an excuse to ignore the generation that is coming up after you. Pass on your faith, your knowledge and your love to your children and grandchildren. Such an action will leave behind a godly legacy.