Simply Take Him At His Word

Friend, we can simply take Him at His Word.

A humble, unpretentious faith could rightly be called a “child-like faith.”

In Matthew 18:1-9, we hear Jesus preaching to His disciples about this child-like belief.

At one point, while Jesus was talking to His disciples, children attempted to come to Him, but the disciples stopped them.

This act of preventing the children from coming to Jesus did not sit well with Him.

But then, Jesus brings forth the children Himself and says, ”Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them, for such is the kingdom of heaven”.

Children are valuable and loved by Christ, so much so that He further declares, “Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of God” (v. 4). Unless we do so, we cannot even enter Jesus’ kingdom. But whoever does so is great in His kingdom”.

You see, kids have this sense of believing that we adults can learn from.

These kids in Matthew, who were attempting to reach Jesus, knew with a pure heart that He was worthy of following without doubt.

Friends to become like a little child, as Jesus says, means that we humbly accept that there are things that we cannot understand about the greatness of God's plan and simply take Him at His Word.

We can have child-like faith with peace in our souls because of our heavenly Father’s good care for us.

He is always loving us, pursuing us, and pruning us to become Who He created us to be.

Let us walk in child-like faith today and every day after.