And He said "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven." Matthew 18:3
We’ve all seen the scripture.
We’ve all heard the examples.
-But-
When YOU hear the phrase “Childlike Faith”, what comes to
mind?
Automatically a little baby angel pops into my mind.
Kind of
like this….Comical right?
I am just not sure that’s what Jesus meant when He told us
to come to him with that sort of faith.
You know I love story telling, so here’s a snippet from last weekend.
My aunt had to leave church to run down the street real
quick. I called her phone with a question and we discovered she had left it at church as
she ran out the door.
Her three year old walks up to me asking to play on mommy’s
phone. I handed it to her not thinking. A couple minutes later she comes up to
me smiling. I said what are you up to? She was facetiming her mother.
From her mother’s phone…
Facetiming her mother…..
From her mother’s phone…..
Are you following this?
I started cracking up.
YOU try
explaining to a 3 year old that her mother couldn’t answer because she had her mother’s
phone!
Every time I explained it, her response was “But Mommy
always answers”
Now to me, this was just a funny scenario, but to her-she
was dead serious.
Mommy always answers.
Always answers.
ALWAYS.
That’s when God showed me the beauty behind it.
“Daddy always answers.”
That’s childlike faith.
The expectation that Daddy will always be there.
So childlike faith isn’t just the idea of being a child
entering Heaven on some fluffy cloud.
It’s the fearless, unwavering faith and trust that Daddy
always answers…
