Becoming childlike

Spiritual maturity is the process by which God makes us more and more childlike!

One of the most important and yet seemingly lost qualities I have seen to be crucial to Kingdom living is childlikeness. Children do not worry about provision or protection nor are they concerned with their faith, their holiness, or their obedience. They hear, trust, obey, and trust some more. Oh! may God restore to His church the innocence of a child. May the simplicity that is in Christ become the focus of our daily lives.

Some where along the way I believed a lie. I do not think any one person taught it to me as much as I learned it through life in the western church. Some where I was taught that sophistication and intelligence were the qualities of the mature. But most likely the clearest and most genuine mark of maturity is childlike trust. The "ability" to lose self-awareness in a head-long jump into the Fathers arms!

We spend so much time trying to cover up our inadequacies to prove our maturity while losing humility! You see the sophisticated church goers, who know "how to act in church" i.e passionless think by sophistication they please God. But He enjoys all of His children simply because they are His children. This does not mean God does not enjoy the "sophisticated" "proper" acting christian but it to say He loves them in spite of these things not because! I must say I have climbed up the tree of knowledge and peered from its branches and saw a greater more fruitful pleasant tree: the tree of life. Delighting in the Lord and He in I is the only way to live each day!

I must insert here a much needed disclaimer; faith and intellect are not mutually exclusive. But seek first understanding with your intellect and you will miss out of the joy of faith. But seek first trusting God even when you do not understand and God will give you understanding. Faith is the only real way to understanding. Spiritual maturity is the process by which God makes us more and more childlike! Come as you are just do not let the titles, what you know, or what you do not know keep you from the joy of Sonship. If you are in Christ you are a Son and the Fathers arms are wide open ready to delight in you simply because you are His son.

May God grant you a childlike heart!

AT