Tender Plants

by Luxmoore, C. M. | Category: General | Jul 1975

The responsibility of carrying out the injunction to make disciples, to baptize them, to teach them to observe all things, is as imperative in the case of children as it is in the case of those of riper years.

If the child is so young that the parents and overseers cannot make sure of the work of God, then they must wait; not indifferently; they must wait with the utmost sympathetic attention to what God is doing in the particular case. Similarly with other cases of difficulty that may arise, and which we are well aware do arise when children brought up in unfavourable environment first come to a knowledge of the Lord. Their early spiritual growth may be slow, so stunted as to be almost beyond recognition. It is for the Sunday school teacher or other servant of the Lord to seek grace to nurture the little plant whose spiritual life perhaps no one can see. What sympathy is called for here! what patience! what longsuffering!

But once we can be sure of a divine work in the heart, that the child is indeed born of God, then we venture to urge most strongly that baptism and adding ought not to be delayed. The assembly is the nursery where the tender plant should be cared for. Happy is the assembly wherein there are young ones being taught and trained for years of future usefulness.

Luxmoore, C. M. | Jul 1975
General