“Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength.” (Psalm 8:2 AMP)
Waiting patiently at the clinic to be called to the pharmacy window to pick up a prescription, a senior citizen is approached by a pre-school child. The senior citizen is gazing at the giant screen that notifies you when your medicine is ready and you can get back in line and, yes, wait some more. The pre-school aged student taps the older man on his knee, and he shows him his toy. With a wide smile on his face, the toddler says, “My daddy gave me this to me.” The man with a face full of gray whiskers and trifocal glasses, both revealing his age, asks, “Is this your birthday?” The adult-like conversation continues. The toddler says, “No. My daddy gives me gifts all the time.” The man replies with another question, “Are you serious?” The child says, “Sometimes they are little gifts and sometimes they are big gifts.” The senior citizen gets ready to say something, but the pre-school aged student continues speaking before the former can get a word out of his mouth, “I tell him thank you.” The senior just nods his head and before he could say anything, once more, the child says, “Isn’t that a good thing?” Before the man could answer, the toddler apparently announces the conversation is over by turning away and takings a few steps to tell another person the same story. The senior citizen can hear him talking. If he wasn’t so young, you might think this child had a script. But that was not the case. He was joyfully sharing from his heart. The senior may have thought he was one of those angels unaware, sent down from heaven from among the myriads on top of myriads of angels, but he heard his mother call him by name and tell him kindly to come wait with her. The senior citizen became God conscious and thought about Jesus’ words when his parents had to come back and get him when He remained at the temple, “Didn’t you know I would be about My Father’s business?”
The toddler had become teacher. What did he teach us? He taught adults, like you and me, to recognize our gifts that the Father gives us! He taught us that God can use a child to communicate things of importance, change our concentration from earthy happenings to heavenly blessings. The toddler taught us how to be thankful! The toddler taught us that good news should be shared. The toddler taught by example about securing a listening ear. Oh yes, the toddler had become a teacher, a teacher extraordinaire. He taught that we need to show how blessed we are, even to folks we have never known. He taught us that sharing what our Father has done is not something you limit to one person. He also taught us how to be thankful. The toddler who had become a teacher may not have known it, but He made the senior citizen reach the conclusion that the Father in heaven, He is worthy of our praise for the great things that He has done; worthy of our praise because He keeps on blessing us and keeping us! As a matter of fact, He has blessed you and me today! How about at least and going to worship service today and thanking God and praising Him in the assembly of the saints? How about applying the lessons taught by the toddler turned teacher? Be blessed!
“Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.” (James 1:17 NASB)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King