"You must become childlike in order to enter the kingdom of God."
Childlike, not childish. There is a huge difference.
To be childlike in the sense in which Jesus was talking is:
- to greet each day as a gift of God....with a vivid sense of wonder....
- to find pleasure in the most simple of things...
- to believe with all your heart things such as God's love for you, which you can not prove logically or experimentally.
- to trust...
- to live with a constant sense of expectancy...
- to forgive...
- to like everyone else just as they are and assume that they like you just as you are.
- to cry when appropriate but to get over it quickly and to laugh when appropriate and not get over it too quickly.
- to be eager...
- to live with honest and genuine humility and with a genuine disregard for status - yours or others.
- to read the Scriptures....
- to pray, honestly believing that yours prayers are heard and that prayer makes a difference.
John P. Gilbert
Adult Bible Series
Uniform Series
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