If you take pride in your maturity being called child-like is an insult. Only when you are of advanced age do you appreciate someone guessing you to be much younger than the number of candles melting on your cake.
We spend our lives trying to act mature, be an adult, to be considered ‘grown-up’. Yet in scripture Jesus tells us we have to be like a little child to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 18:15-17 NIV
But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
But… WHY? We consider being a child to equal a lack of maturity. How can you be a ‘mature Christian’ and still enter heaven like a child? The answer came to me while talking with my oldest nephew. Continue reading
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