Matthew 19:14
King James Version
14 But Jesus said,
Suffer little children,
and forbid them not, to come unto me:
for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Is it possible a grandmother and a grandchild can have such stark, differing thoughts about good and evil?
Seems to be the case, if I were to tell you about what I witnessed the other day.
I had about just gotten off the commuter jeep, bound for home, when I noticed a neighbor unloading some carabao horns from a parked van.
Of course, being an entrepreneur, she was going to sell them.
She offered one to me.
In the Philippines, as in Texas, some folks like having horns grace the front of their trucks.
She offered the idea to others, too.
Well, at her shop doorstep was a little girl.
I don't believe I've ever seen her before.
(Although it turned out she was the infant I had seen grow up through the years, and by now was a little girl.)
But she took to me, and gave me a large conch shell.
She had two in hand, but offered me one.
I thought to myself, "What's the catch?"
Did I need to buy it?
Or was she really just giving it to me?
Initially, she was.
Then the little mind thought up an "idea".
There's something she wanted me to buy.
Some vague thing about art, or something.
The HOLY SPIRIT conjured up an image for me.
Something that I had found at a school supplies store months ago.
I knew EXACTLY what to give the little one!
Mind you, she was but five years old.
But it seems, she lorded it over that step.
Then I told her about her grandmother's new "acquisitions".
The carabao horns.
She didn't like the idea.
It reminded her of devil's horns.
How is it this little girl had formed an opinion on that so soon?
I believe her folks are of a different sect of religion, but it seems she had already set her mind about those horns.
Then her grandmother gaily gets into the shop, pleased with her goods.
And I think to myself now, the child will have to "live" with those horns in that shop.
I really must get her that art project the HOLY SPIRIT imprinted upon my mind.
When something unusual like this happens, a born again watchman is on alert.
We know we are not alone.
A little one has joined forces.
Maybe she'll lead; who knows?
For as long as there are innocents from GOD, holding fort, there is hope for the world.
For as long as a young mind knows the symbolism of good, and evil, we ought to be grateful.
Remember what JESUS said of the "little ones":
Matthew 18:1-7
King James Version
18 At the same time
came the disciples unto Jesus, saying,
Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him,
and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you,
Except ye be converted,
and become as little children,
ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore
shall humble himself as this little child,
the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoso shall receive
one such little child in my name receiveth me.
6 But whoso shall offend
one of these little ones which believe in me,
it were better for him that a millstone
were hanged about his neck,
and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
7 Woe unto the world because of offences!
for it must needs be that offences come;
but woe to that man
by whom the offence cometh!
A horn, or a shell?
The first, offered by the grandmother.
The second, offered by a child.
As if I even need to think about it.
May JESUS shine His LIGHT upon that household, and protect that child.
As it is, she's holding fort.
And I'm right there with her.
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