One truly innocent baby(Favell Lee Mortimer, "Family Devotions")"Every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood." Genesis 8:21"I was born a sinner--yes, from the moment my mother conceived me." Psalm 51:5"We were born with an evil nature, and we were under God's wrath." Ephesians 2:3There never was but one truly innocentbaby--it was the infant Savior."So the baby born to you will be holy, and He will be called the Son of God." Luke 1:35"One who is holy and blameless, unstained by sin." Hebrews 7:26
_________________Abraham Juliot
This Gem from Spurgeon goes well with Mortimer's.Even infants at the mothers' breast!-Spurgeon's, The Carnal Mind Enmity Against GodEvery carnal mind in the world is at enmity against God.This does not exclude even infants at the mothers' breast!We call them innocent, and so they are of 'actual'transgression, but as the poet says, "Within the youngestbreast there lies a stone."There is in the carnal mind of an infant, enmity against God;it is not developed, but it lies there!The carnal mind is enmity against God "at all times."The wolf may sleep, but it is a wolf still.The snake with its azure hues, may slumber amid the flowers,and the child may stroke its slimy back, but it is a serpent still;it does not change its nature, though it is dormant. The sea isthe house of storms, even when it is glassy as a lake.And the heart, when we perceive not its ebullitions,when it belches not forth its lava, and sends not forth the hotstones of its corruption, is still the same dread volcano.At all times, at all hours, at every moment, if you are carnal,you are each one of you enmity against God.
It is hard to think of that chubby little baby you hold in your arms as a sin filled person.Just think, we were once so cute, now look at us,not so cute, and that carnality in us wants to rule us.How we need God's grace and forgiveness, because our thoughts are against Him, let alone our deeds.Thank God for the blood of Jesus Christ.God bless.