I Enjoy Children

They're just so much fun, and God uses them in so many amazing ways. That's probably why I now teach middle school and have chosen to work with children most of my life. It reminds me of two Scriptures.

Psalm 127:3

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,
the fruit of the womb a reward.

And Matthew 21:16 (where Jesus quotes Psalm 8:2)

and they said to him, “Do you hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”

Preaching the Gospel at Work

Here is a wonderfully real reminder of the Gospel at work in our work from Timmy Brister, who writes of a conversation with one his UPS trainees:

He came to the point where he asked, “So Timmy, what else is there worth living for other than myself and my children?” I replied, “When I came to Jesus, and that cross became a reality to me, I died, and from that moment on, I live everyday of my life for the one who died for me.”

It's worth a full read.