How does one balance becoming a responsible leader and provider and yet remain a child at heart, a child before God that is free to play, trust, and change as the spirit leads?
Jesus says we can not enter the Kingdom unless we become like a child. Not a very powerful image of the virtuous man. A child is one who is totally dependent and surrendered into the care of another.
Yet we are still called to “grow up” and take our place in the community so that others can rely on us for support, to be a rock for others, and ultimately, to become like Christ in the world. That’s a high calling and we should aspire to it, but not confuse it with losing our spiritual childhood. Our fundamental identity remains as that of child, playing before the Father, taken up in his arms, and surrendered into his hands without a care beyond the present moment.
Jun 3, 2017