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What About the Children
The blood of Christ protects children.

One of the most frequently asked questions I get about heaven is also one of the hardest. What happens to children who pass away?

As a lifelong pastor, I’ve stood beside small caskets trying to comfort others when my own heart was broken over the scene before me. If one is unable to grasp the meaning of and accept our Savior’s gift of eternal life to us, how can they enter heaven? Scripture gives us reasons to trust that infants and young children are not lost forever.

God is a good God to all, and He’s certainly good to children. He loves the preborn and the newborn, the infant, the toddler, and all the children. He knows little children cannot comprehend the truth of the Gospel, yet God loves them deeply. The age of accountability is not a chronological measurement but a reckoning of spiritual understanding. The age when they comprehend the Gospel is different for each child.

When reading through the Bible, and particularly the stories of Jesus’ ministry, we discover God has an incredible love for children and He demonstrated that love on many occasions.

·When the people of Israel were denied entrance into the Promised Land because of the people’s unbelief, their children were not held responsible. God allowed them to enter. It’s the principle of God applying His grace to those who cannot believe (Deut. 1:39).

·One reason God gave to Jonah for having pity on Nineveh was the huge number of children living in the city (Jonah 4:11)

·Jesus’ love for children is so important that three Gospel writers recorded it. Matthew’s account reads, “Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven’” (Matt. 19:13-14; see also Mark 10:13-14; Luke 18:15-16).

·The daughter of Jairus is a prototype of every child who dies, who falls asleep in Jesus, and whom the Lord will raise up with resurrection glory (Luke 8:52-56).

Because of His mercy, the little ones we lost will be waiting in heaven.

So if you’ve lost a child, let your heart and mind turn upward. Let the soon-approaching joys of your coming reunion lift your mind to Jesus, who never saw a child He didn’t love enough to die for.

Jesus loves you, and He loves every child from conception. He loves us from before time ever began, and you’ll enjoy an eternity of loving fellowship with Him and that child.