Like Little Children

"And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:2-3.

Little children. When you're little and you look up to someone, you think the best of them. You think that whatever they say is so, and that they always have your well being in mind. And thus, you obey them without question. You try to make them happy in every thing. You seek to be just like them, because you love them.

So often as we grow older, we become jaded because we realize that they are not perfect, they are not always right, and in most cases, not always looking out for us. We begin to lose the ability to trust people, more or less, to some degree. We hold people, perhaps without realizing it, at arms length.

We don't have to with GOD. He is perfect, He is always right, and He always seeks our highest good, even though it may not seem so at the time. "...the LORD [is] upright: [He is] my rock, and [there is] no unrighteousness in Him." Psalm 92:15

"Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, [and] Israel had walked in My ways! I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned My hand against their adversaries. The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto Him: but their time should have endured for ever. He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee." Psalm 81:13-16. "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." Jeremiah 29:11.

"God [is] not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do [it?] or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?" Numbers 23:19. If we do what He says, He will do as He says. "Them that honour me I will honour," 1 Samuel 2:30.

With such assurance, shouldn't we seek to be more childlike today?

Blessings,
Adelaide