And all those who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying,
"What kind of child will this be?" And the hand of the Lord was with
him. – Luke 1.66
The birth of John is fascinating. The angel told
Zacharias that he and his wife Elisabeth were going to have a son, even though
she was barren. The angel told Zacharias that his son was going to named John.
That was confusing; there were no Johns in the family.
Zacharias was going to call his son Zacharias. When he said that the angel told
Zacharias that he would not speak again till the baby was born.
The people were amazed at all this. ‘What kind of child
will this be?’
I think that is a question we all might ask when we
have children or grandchildren come into the family. When that precious child
arrives I think we all wonder what kind of child this is going to be. How will
this child turn out?
We then read the answer – ‘the hand of the Lord was
with him.’
Obviously we are not all going to be John the Baptist,
but in a Christian home we can look forward to watching the hand of God on our
children. Clearly, our children are going to have free will and make their own
choices, but our prayer from the very beginning ought to be that the hand of
the Lord would be on these children as the grow and then we need to all we can
do through living guidance and godly instruction to see them walk as guided by
the hand of the Lord.
See the children in your lives today and pray that they
will be guided by the hand of God and then do all you can to give them godly direction.
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