ListenDaily – 07 April 2010: Change?
"And Jesus said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” {(Matthew 18:3)
Compared to our Father, our knowing and understanding is like a little child's compared to their father.
When we accept Christ, there is a change that has to take place, and I am not speaking here about behavior, but perspective. Jesus said we must “change” (from the Greek, “turn”) and “become like little children.
A child expects guidance, expects protection, and expects to be obedient or experience consequences. And a child knows adults know more; and that goes beyond an intellectual thought – it affects their behavior. It causes them to expect the guidance, protection, and so on.
As I have said recently, all of us would say that God knows more than we do – but is it more than an intellectual assent? Does that knowledge affect our behavior? Do we expect God to guide and protect us? Do we expect that we must be obedient or experience consequences? Do we humble ourselves, see ourselves as children?
"I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
NEXT: Discernment – a checklist
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Questions:
1. Is “Father”, to you, more than a title for God?
2. How does that, or could it, affect seeing what God wants for you?
3. Can you pray, right now, for God to show you, specifically, what He wants you to do?
INTERESTING THOUGHT:
"Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It." Oswald Chambers
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