“If you could do one thing to make the world a better place, what would it be?” Alec asked at the supper table the other night.

My first thought was to stop killing babies in the womb, but I couldn’t very well explain that to my seven-year-old. He has no idea that such a horrific thing is happening in the world, and his little mind would have a hard time grasping the idea that not everyone thinks that a “tiny baby” is important and precious and worthy of protecting. He’s had some other bubbles burst when it comes to the evil that exists in the world, but that’s not one I’m willing to burst yet, especially not when I’m carrying his own little very-much-anticipated little sibling inside me.

So I couldn’t say that, and as I was trying to think of something, I realized that he probably didn’t come up with that question all on his own.

“Were you asked that at school?” I asked him. And when he said he was, I asked him what his answer had been.

"That everyone would love God,” he said.

Just that simple.

I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of that.

The faith of a child.

Of course the world would be a better place if everyone loved God. That would solve so many problems, baby murder included. It doesn’t have to be some long, complicated answer trying to cover all the basics.

Loving God covers all the basics better than anything we could dream up.

There’s a reason it’s the first commandment!

“Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.” (Matthew 22:35-38)

Then in Bible Time I sang the song I’ve been teaching the boys lately, “The Light of the World Is Jesus.” It fit right in with what Alec had said.

The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin;
The Light of the world is Jesus.
Like sunshine at noonday His glory shone in,
The Light of the world is Jesus.
Come to the Light, tis shining for thee;
Sweetly the Light has dawned upon me.
Once I was blind, but now I can see:
The Light of the World is Jesus.
(P. P. Bliss)

The Light and the Salvation and the Hope of the world is Jesus.

What a privilege to know Him.