Jesus Loves the Little Children

 

Job 31:15 Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

 

The context of this remark by Job is connected to how he treats others, specifically in his case, his servants. Would that we all would remember this truth as we interact with all the human race, or maybe I should say human races. How did that Ray Stevens song go? “Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world.”

 

Wombs are all different of course, but each one is a studio where the Master Potter does His thing. Wombs know of no national boundaries and each one has its own unique environment. God begins His masterful sculpting by selecting the very sperm and egg that will determine things like hair color, the color of skin, the color of eyes, and everything else that goes into His finished project. Jer 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

Once He selects the raw material, He goes to work! Ps 139:14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

Every “clay pot,” if you will, uniquely put together and endowed with a soul from conception on. This individual soul of every man woman and child in every nation kick started by the very breath of God on the sixth day of Creation: Ge 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

 

We are clay pots animated by the very breath of God!  God had a purpose in mind for you even from the sixth day of Creation! And He has a purpose behind every one of us, and that purpose can be summed up in this manner: We are created to love and be loved. This is the greatest commandment for every “clay pot” that God has crafted in His workshop of the womb.

Mt 22:36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37 Jesus said to him," 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 "This is the first and great commandment. 39 "And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

 

This loving creative process of God is why we can say with assurance: “Behind every set of eyes, is a soul that matters to God.”

So, c’mon clay pot! Sing it with me! “Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world.”