Psalms 34:11. Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
I should not wonder but that, when David played the madman, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, the children in the streets gathered round him, and mocked him. Wherever we have done harm to any, let us try to do them good. So did David; he sought to gather the children about his knees, and to talk to them: "Come, ye children." He does not begin by saying, "Stand off, ye children." There would be no teaching them in that way; you must seek to draw them to yourselves if you would draw them to your Lord. "Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord." Though David had been anointed king, he remained a teacher of children, and the highest honour we can have is, for Christ’s sake, to teach the little ones. Children love bright, happy teaching; they naturally desire life and happiness; so David begins:-
Psalms 34:11. Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
I should not wonder but that, when David played the madman, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, the children in the streets gathered round him, and mocked him. Wherever we have done harm to any, let us try to do them good. So did David; he sought to gather the children about his knees, and to talk to them: "Come, ye children." He does not begin by saying, "Stand off, ye children." There would be no teaching them in that way; you must seek to draw them to yourselves if you would draw them to your Lord. "Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord." Though David had been anointed king, he remained a teacher of children, and the highest honour we can have is, for Christ’s sake, to teach the little ones. Children love bright, happy teaching; they naturally desire life and happiness; so David begins:-