Jesus stands with the vulnerable

Morning: Psalms 2, 26; Isaiah 49:13-23; Matthew 18:1-14

Evening: Psalms 19, 126; Mark 10:13-16

Children are not treated well in Jesus’s time.  They are thought unimportant.  Jesus’s attitude of hospitality and welcome for children is quite uncharacteristic of his society.  To us, Jesus’s care for children seems normal.  Yet his advocacy for the little ones goes against the cultural grain.  He puts children at the centre of his world; others want to push them aside.  This is Jesus’s pattern; he sides with the vulnerable – the poor, outcasts, women, the sick, and children – rather than pander to power.