Have you ever heard to the purity of God’s Word through the innocence of a child’s mouth? Even when we don’t have a child or teenager living at home, we should remember that when a child speaks the word of God, it’s without being filtered through the trash from the world that we’ve been around for so many more years than they have.
We have a ridiculously powerful influence to either encourage or discourage the growth of their gifts. Speak life, listen, and add light. We are not the gift givers, but we are the habitat and we choose to pollute or nurture them.
And when we nurture them, we become less jaded in the reminder that a lot of our ill emotions and thought process come from our own bad experiences and not from our own natural God given gifts.
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.”
1 Timothy 4:12, 14 NIV
Deeper Than a Puddle 