Kid's Play

Matthew 19:13-15 (The Message): "One day children were brought to Jesus in the hope that He would lay hands on them and pray over them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus intervened: 'Let the children alone, don't prevent them from coming to me. God's kingdom is made up of people like these.' After laying hands on them, He left."

Do you still have a child-like faith in your life, or have you grown up to become a hardened, calloused, cynical, glass-half-empty, always-rolling-your-eyes, jaded kind of adult?

Look at how Jesus described the inhabitants of God's kingdom: as being like children. In most cases when we hear of an someone acting like a child, it's not a compliment. But here it is.

Do you still have a child-like faith? Does God's natural handiwork still amaze you? Do you still stand in awe at a rainbow or a sunset or a waterfall? Or have your eyes and your heart and your soul grown calloused? Have you lost this sense of child-like awe?

Examine yourself. Examine your eyes. Examine your heart. Examine your soul. Examine your faith. A mature faith may be measured in years - but a mature faith doesn't have to be hardened by years.