Childlike

"Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again."
-John 3:3 NIV

"Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."

-Mark 10:15 NIV

Moving through childhood, the teenage years and into adulthood is not the same thing as becoming mature. There are many positive experiences and teachable moments a person goes through that may help shape them, but there are also many experiences that wound and scar, bringing doubt, cynicism, fear, and mistrust. These experiences are the basis for the paradigm (an emotional operating system) that we come to process life through. This was the darkened lens that I saw life through; I trusted almost no one and "faith" was an unknown word to me. Cynicism and doubt were the signposts on the path I travelled on.

But when I finally saw the emptiness of atheism and my previous way of life, when I was "born-again", I truly became like a little child. As I feasted on the Word of God, faith sprung up in me. As I read my red letter bible (the words of Jesus) I knew in my heart, in my spirit, that these were the most important of life's truths. Maturity happens over time as we trust our heavenly Father, hearing and  obeying His voice. Trusting and obeying God doesn't always mean that I understand His purposes at that time. But I trust-I know- that  if He's watching over the birds of the air and the flowers of the fields, beloved, then He is holding us in the same palms of His hands on which our names are engraved.