Nobody Told Me!

    Jesus once told his disciples in Matthew 18:5-6 “And whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me. But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 

   This verse reminds me of a story of a man that became interested in the problem of juvenile delinquency. If his efforts to find a common cause, he began to interview some of the boys that were in custody at a local detention center. As he talked to a young boy that had been arrest for working as a pick pocket, he asked him why he did things that were wrong. The boy looked at him with a confused stare and replied, “No one ever taught me anything different.” 

  One the easiest way we can cause a young person to fall into sin is to be apathetic towards their spiritual education. The bible speaks to us in several passages about teaching God’s word to those that are younger. (Deuteronomy 4:9-11, Psalms 78:5-7, Titus 2:1-8 for example) How terrible would it be to know that young person has gone into sin because we are not willing to teach them anything different!