Seeing immortal life in our children

Here is an excerpt from another book I am reading: Raising your Child to love God by Andrew Murray. I think it is beautiful:

"It was by faith that Moses' parents saw he was no ordinary child (Heb11:23). The natural love of a parent's heart doubtless made the child a beautiful one in the mother's eyes, but faith saw more than nature could. God opened the eyes, and there was the consciousness of something special, of a spiritual beauty that made their baby doubly precious. And so the eye of faith sees in each little one a divine goodness. Is this not a being created in God's image with the faint light of a divine glory, of an immortal life, shining from it? Here is an object of the great redemption, destined to be a partaker of the precious blood and the Holy Spirit of Jesus, to be the object of the joy of angels and God's everlasting love and pleasure - a child whose worth exceeds that of the whole world; a child that even in this life can be a brother of Jesus, a servant of God, a blessing for the immortal spirits of his fellowmen. Surely faith may call the newborn unspeakably fair, seeing him shining as a jewel in the crown of the Lamb - His joy and His glory. We have indeed a surer hope than ever Moses' parents had, and a brighter light in which the heavenly beauty of our offspring is reflected. O Father, open the eyes of all your people, that in each little one you give them their faith may see an extraordinary child.

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