There's a well-known instance in the Bible where Jesus was teaching and a group of children came up to Him; the disciples, thinking they were doing the Lord a favor, shooed the children away, but Christ stopped them. "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not:" He rebuked, "for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
That's an interesting statement: "for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
I pondered on that recently and came up with several childlike characteristics that I believe God wants His children to hold on to.
Children possess an incredible ability to display faith. As children we tended to trust before doubting. With the passing of time, though, that trusting nature faded. Our spirits became jaded by the grime of a lying and deceitful world, and we lost that easy faith. But if we are to come to God--in our daily lives as well as for salvation--a child-like faith and trust in Him is our only path. Somehow we have to scrub away that grime, dust off our faith. We have to put total, complete, unwavering trust in our Heavenly Father as we once did in our earthly parents. Only then can we see Him.
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