Within each of us there is the
child waiting to escape!
I recall an incident just a few years ago on a cold autumn day.
"Enjoying yourself?"
For a moment I had found myself doing what the child in me would have done years before.
Jesus was speaking to His disciples when he said:
A simple childlike faith and trust in the Saviour is all we need to ensure our eternal future in the presence of God.
Is yours secure?
The leaves had fallen and, having been dried out by the wind, were now spread evenly across the pavement I was walking along.
Seeing the leaves lying there I suddenly felt an irresistible urge to crunch them underneath my feet - so I did! (This childlike feeling had surfaced despite the fact that I was a mother of three and 39 years old.) I had become so engrossed in what I was doing that I hadn't realised I was being watched. Then I heard a voice across the road. A neighbour who had watched me crunch my way down the path called out
I looked up and smiled.
"We never grow up do we?" she said.
And she is right!
It made me think of my relationship with Jesus. He wants me to trust Him exercising a simple, childlike faith - the way a child trusts his parents.
The Bible doesn't exhort us to behave childishly but, in matters of faith, to become childlike.
"Verily I say unto you, except you be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:3)