Demetrics and Pauline Roscoe

Our blog “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.” The subject was meant to talk about how different people see different things while looking at the same circumstances.

Some people pursue the Lord because of what He can do for them, while others bow down to worship Him, because of WHO HE IS. While both actions are right to do, by contrast, one without the other leads to different paths. For this reason, parents must recognize the valuable resource in their presence, who have little children in their homes. Parents must know that the Lord is releasing into their care, one of ADONAI”S best-secret weapons, the mind of a child.

The mind of a child is the Lord’s creation, designed for God’s habitation, and His haven for the future spiritual authority under HIS control. The thought process of a child is the only place robust enough for God’s aggressive truths. Children will believe God at His word. A child is equipped with a belief potential that rivals the perceptions of their predecessors. 

“Beauty Lies in the Eyes of the beholder” pointed out God’s dormant presence in the Mind of a child.
That particular Blog was written to showcase the Child King of Israel, Josiah, who reformed the Nation of Israel, back to a godly kingdom.
There were other incidents where Adonai involved children as Oracles, in events in time when Divine truths were unveiled, by the minds of ordinary children.

Scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot,” one distinct area of the brain responsible for spirituality. Now, University of Missouri researchers have completed research that indicates spirituality is a complex phenomenon, and multiple areas of the brain are responsible for the many aspects of spiritual experiences.

“We have found a neuropsychological basis for spirituality, but it’s not isolated to one specific area of the brain,” said Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology in the School of Health Professions. “Spirituality is a much more dynamic concept that uses many parts of the brain. Certain parts of the brain play more predominant roles, but they all work together to facilitate individuals’ spiritual experiences.”

The primary reasons why Adonai said to the ancient Israelites, “teach My instructions to your children” is because God designed man with the faculties to know Him as Lord and Creator, and to know the fear of the Lord as one to be worshipped and obeyed. The cerebral activation begins as soon as the child’s imagination is ready for the spiritual download. The architectural design of a child’s Brain’s spiritual enthusiasm awakens as early as six years of age.

So, parents must create a foundation of understanding in our Children’s minds while the Brain is ready to digest such a radical diversity of subject’s perplexities. How beautiful is the young soul who hides the instructions of the Lord in their tiny minds as elements of motivation?

14 The blind and the lame came to him in the Temple, and he healed them. 15 The leading priests and the teachers of religious law saw these wonderful miracles and heard even the children in the Temple shouting, “Praise God for the Son of David.”  But the leaders were indignant. 16 They asked Jesus, “Do you hear what these children are saying?”

“Yes,” Jesus replied. “Haven’t you ever read the Scriptures? For they say, ‘You have taught children and infants to give you praise.’” 

Mark 10:15-16 (NLT) 15 I tell you the truth; anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.” 16 Then he took the children in his arms and placed his hands on their heads and blessed them.

This statement proves that Adonai is responsible for the way children are Intentionally conscious of HIM, whereas infants and children are taught to praise Him. By Whom are they taught?

My grandson, Jonathan, is four years of age. The name Jonathan means “given by God.” My grandson was three months premature at birth. While his tiny body was inside the incubator, Jonathan stopped breathing. Doctors and hospital personnel scrambled to save tiny Jonathan. Kajol, my daughter-in-law, couldn’t leave her bed to check on Jonathan, due to surgical procedures.

Then a voice was heard over Kajol’s bed telling her Jonathan will not die, the child will recover. So, Beatrice, Kajol’s English name, asked the nurse, who was that person that just left my room? When the nurse answered her and said you had no visitors, Kajol started crying. Today, Jonathan worships the Lord all by himself. Even though their home is bilingual, Jonathan sometimes speaks his own Language and shouts “Hallelujah,” at the end. Jonathan speaks clear English now, but for a long time after leaving the Hospital, Jonathan could barely talk, at all. Jonathan has Bishops on both sides of his family which includes international, Bishop Javed Albert.

Psalms 119:9-14 (NLT)

9 How can a young person stay pure?  By obeying your word. 10 I have tried hard to find you— don’t let me wander from your commands. 11 I have hidden your word in my heart,  that I might not sin against you. 12 I praise you, O Lord;  teach me your decrees. 13 I have recited aloud  all the regulations you have given us. 14 I have rejoiced in your laws  as much as in riches.

Deuteronomy 4:10 (NLT)
10 Never forget the day when you stood before the Lord your God at Mount Sinai, where he told me, ‘Summon the people before me, and I will personally instruct them. Then they will learn to fear me as long as they live, and they will teach their children to fear me also.’

Psalms 119:17-24 (NLT)
17 Be good to your servant,  that I may live and obey your word. 18 Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions. 19 I am only a foreigner in the land.  Don’t hide your commands from me! 20 I am always overwhelmed with a desire for your regulations. 21 You rebuke the arrogant;  those who wander from your commands are cursed. 22 Don’t let them scorn and insult me,  for I have obeyed your laws. 23 Even princes sit and speak against me,  but I will meditate on your decrees. 24 Your laws please me;  they give me wise advice.

The Apostle Peter failed his stress test while on the sea of Galilee. If there were children in that boat, they would have fought over who was going next. Our Lord would have had to listen to complaints from the Children, “You didn’t let me walk on water, and I have been good.

The Call of Samuel

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Samuel goes from being a child, who didn’t know the voice of God to a Prophet to the nation in one night.

Ch. 1 Samuel 3:1-10. 1. the child Samuel] According to Josephus, Samuel had just completed his twelfth year when the word of Adonai came to him. In later times this age was a critical point in the life of a Jewish boy. He then became ‘a son of the Law,’ and was regarded as personally responsible for obedience to it. It was at the age of twelve that “the child Yeshua (Jesus Christ of Nazareth)” first went up to Jerusalem along with his parents (Luke 2:42).

1Samue 2:11; 1 Samuel 2:18.
A word from the LORD was precious and rather, it was rare. In the general decay of religion, prophetic communications from God had almost entirely ceased. Cp. Amos 8:11; Psalm 74:9. We read of two prophets only in the days of the Judges (Jdg 4:4; Jdg 6:8).

there was no open vision] Rather, there was no vision published abroad. The word is used in 2 Chronicles 31:5 of the publication of a decree (E. V. came abroad). There was no publicly acknowledged prophet, whose ‘word came to all Israel.’

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There were many kings over Israel from the days of Solomon until the time when they were carried away as captives to Babylon. The kingdom was divided soon after Solomon’s death, and a king reigned in Jerusalem over the kingdom of Judah, and another in Samaria over the kingdom of Israel. There were a few kings who tried to follow that which was right, but the most of them were men who were given to idolatry, and who did not help the people to remember the true God. The Lord sent them prophets to remind them of Him, but they were often driven away or ill-treated. There were a few good kings of Judah, such as Asa and Jehoshaphat, and Hezekiah, and among them were two who became kings when they were very young.

  When Ahaziah, King of Judah, was killed, his mother, who was a wicked woman, killed all his sons, that she herself might be queen. All but a baby boy who was hidden with his nurse in the temple, and tenderly cared for by the good high priest and his wife for six years. Then when he was seven years old the priests and the Levites brought out little Joash and anointed him king. They formed a guard all about him, and when the high priest had crowned him there was a great cry around the temple, “God save the King.”

The old queen heard this and came to see what it meant. When she saw the little Joash standing by a pillar with a crown on his head she cried out that the people were plotting against her.

    The people did by her as she had done by her grandsons-they took her life.

Then there was great rejoicing. The house of Baal was torn down, and the Lord’s gold and silver brought back to the temple, and the good high priest began the worship God in the temple after the manner of former days.

King Joash

When Joash was old enough to understand he longed to make the temple beautiful again, for it was falling into decay, so he called for money throughout his kingdom. Everyone was asked to drop a silver piece in the chest that was set at the temple door, and more than enough was brought to re-build the temple, and while the high priest lived the king worshipped there with all the princes of Judah, but as soon as he died they went back to idol worship and killed the new high priest in the court of the temple because he told them that the Lord would bring great trouble upon them. And so it came to pass in less than a year the Syrians came and killed the princes, and took away the gold and silver treasures of the temple. Joash himself became very sick, and his own servants took his life as he lay helpless.

King Josiah

  It was quite different with little Josiah. He was only eight years old when he was crowned King of Judah, and he had no one so good as the high priest Jehoida, who was the teacher of Joash, to help him to do right. Even the holy writings that were given to Moses were lost, and the people did not ask to hear them read. But the Lord had not allowed His word to be destroyed, and when Josiah was having the temple repaired the high priest found the rolls of parchment on which the law was written, and sent it to the king by a servant of the king who was a writer. Josiah was full of interest in the ancient book, and wished to know what was in it, and his servant read it to him.

When he found that he and his people were not living as God had commanded in the law, he sent to inquire of the Lord what He would have them to do, and they went to Huldah, the prophetess. She told the king’s messengers that a great calamity would fall upon the kingdom because they had turned away from the true God, but because the king’s heart was tender and full of desire to follow the Lord, it should not come during his lifetime.

Then the king called all the chief men of Judah, and the people of the city, both great and small, with the priests and the Levites, to the Lord’s house, and there he read in their hearing the word of the Lord. It was like a new book to the most of them, but they were ready to follow the king in making a solemn promise to the Lord to do His commandments, and bring back the true worship.

So they had a great feast of the Passover, to which all the people came with offerings, and there was no Passover in all the history of the kings of Judah and Israel that was like this one that was held in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.

Deuteronomy 4:8-10 (NLT) 8 And what great nation has decrees and regulations as righteous and fair as this body of instructions that I am giving you today? 9 “But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren. 10 Never forget the day when you stood before the Lord your God at Mount Sinai, where he told me, ‘Summon the people before me, and I will personally instruct them. Then they will learn to fear me as long as they live, and they will teach their children to fear me also.’

(Easton Bible Dictionary)   The forms of idolatry are,

(1.) Fetishism, or the worship of trees, rivers, hills, stones, etc.  

(2.) Nature worship, the worship of the sun, moon, and stars, as the supposed powers of nature.

 (3.) Hero worship, the worship of deceased ancestors, or of heroes.

In Scripture, idolatry is regarded as of heathen origin, and as being imported among the Hebrews through contact with heathen nations. The first allusion to idolatry is in the account of Rachel stealing her father’s teraphim (Gen 31:19), which were the relics of the worship of other gods by Laban’s progenitors “on the other side of the river in old time” (Josh 24:2. During their long residence in Egypt the Hebrews fell into idolatry, and it was long before they were delivered from it(Josh 24:14; Ezek 20:7.