Childlike faith...we hear it said, but what is it really? A good question to ask ourselves since Jesus said, that without it we wouldn't enter into the Kingdom Of Heaven. ("I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child becomes the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven." Matthew 18:3-4 New Living Translation)
To me, childlike faith implies two main things:
1. The humility of incomplete wholeness (insufficiency of our humanity)
2. The courage of complete abandonment (fearless dependence on Christ's redemption)
These two things are, at the same time, in direct contrast to one another and also exact representations of one another. We were created in God's image to live forever with Him. That image was marred by the sin nature in each one of us and brought death into reality. He came in full humanity to live a sinless life (with the result being a life resurrected from death) so that we can be who we were created to be apart from sin. Jesus. Only One fully God and fully man could do that for us and only He can do that in us by the power of His Holy Spirit. He died so that we might live forever with God, free from sin. As we abandon ourselves to His rule and reign in our lives, we allow Him to live through us and death is swallowed up in His victory.
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