Sunday, May 22, 2016

Sunday Schoolisms Plus # 15: Childlike Not Childish


"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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