Jesus loved children. There can be no doubt about that. It seems He saw something in them that He longs to see in us. We can’t even be a part of God’s Kingdom unless we become like them, are born again, and become children of God.
It’s interesting that as parents we spend so much time trying to become the kind of people our kids can emulate (and well we should), but we also need — at times — to do some emulating of them as well. God wants us to have the kind of faith charactized by their exuberant following of him. He wants us to trust Him unquestionable, to believe He is who He says He is, and to believe He is going to do in us and through us like He as told us in the Bible.
Children have few pretenses. They come into the world to be shaped by us and the world around them. God wants us to come to Him and His Word with no pretenses and to let him shape us.
It sounds odd to say, but we can rise to no greater position in this world than to that of a child — a child of God.
