In Your Hands...

When I was looking over the Sunday school lesson this week (I'm just the assistant), I noticed this little excerpt at the beginning of the teacher's book. We hold such a deep responsibility. The lives and souls of little children. What we say or do can and will affect them for eternity! May we pray and ask the Lord for guidance to present the Gospel to them, that the Lord will speak to their hearts...now at an early age!

When a boy or girl thrusts his small hand in yours, it may be smeared with chocolate ice cream, or grimy from petting a dog; and there may be a wart under the right thumb or a bandage around the little finger. But the most important thing about his hands is that they are the hands of the future.

These are hands that someday hold a Bible or a Colt revolver; play the church piano or spin a gambling wheel, gently dress a leper's wound, or tremble wretchedly uncontrolled by an alcoholic mind.

Right now that hand is yours. It asks for help and guidance. It represents a full fledged personality in miniature to be respected as a separate individual whose day to day growth in Christian adulthood is your responsibility.

                             ~Moody Monthly