What Jesus Did! 'To Be a Child!' — Matthew 18:2-4

Without being syrupy or sappy, Jesus' words hit us like a cold slap in the face. "Unless you change," he insists, "you won't enter the kingdom of heaven!" Jesus isn't subtle. Jesus is not politically correct. Jesus is multi-cultural as long as all cultures surrender to his Kingdom rule and become a new culture, the culture of the humble. If we are honest, we spend most of our childhood trying to grow up too fast. We don't want to be children. Children are the ones hurt by divorce, abuse, abandonment, poverty, and predators. Children can't vote, can't drive, and can't date. There are many things they can't choose to do. While on one hand children rule the day because of permissive or non-involved parents, on the other hand they can be in great danger and suffer great abuse. Who wants to be vulnerable, powerless, and humble like a child?

"Unless you turn from your sins and become like little children!" I MUST change. I MUST be humble. I MUST surrender to the King of glory so I can find life. Only then, in becoming a child, like God himself in Jesus our Immanuel, will I find greatness!