Matthew 18:3 topic is childhood
3 And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
My comment:
Why should we become children again in order to enter the kingdom of heaven?? Let us have a closer look to the word "childhood". What does it mean?
Everybody certainly can remember how it is to be a child: Great time, always happy, carefree, listen to the parents, no anger, easy to forgive, innocent, and a lot of candys to eat^^.
When we was a child there is no competition or sorrows, no anger like we have now everyday. We may think of easy life in the past and it is true.
Growing up means to take more responsibility and to be more "well-behaved" which means that we become selfish, egoistical, speak badly about others, want to hurt somebody, often be unhappy because not everything is perfect, always wants to be the best (a lot of competition) and not ready to forgive someone and hate him because he has done wrong to us.
We have lost everything we learned from the values of childhood. Did we want always to be best when we was a child?? Did we talk bad things about other persons?? Are we such selfish like we are today?? If a friend hurt us aren`t we friends again 5 minutes later? We forgive each other very easy. As a child we degrade ourselfes and love our parents very much. We don`t show off because of our outward appearance, cloths, marks, or status`nowadays. We are just hayppy and careless children who accept everything we receive from parents. We don`t want everything new like we do today. And as a child we trust God blindly and what about today?? I often doubt about everything.
Can`t we become a child again?? Being careless, not egoistical, always happy, and love our parents, have no competition, don`t speak badly about other, always forgive others and never be angry with someone for a long time??
My answer: Yes we can. Why we can`t? We was a child and can be still be a child. It doesn`t mean to behave like a child. We must bring back the "values of childhood" back to our heart and our mind. Jesus tells us to do that. And really if we have these values back, our life is much more easier and you will be loved not only by God and Jesus (who always love you) also by the others because everyone loves the kind of beeing "children".
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2 comments:
so true, so true. i think many times we stop being a child because we start to consider how others may feel about us. for children, it's so easy to forgive and forget and be friends again in 5 minutes because a child doesn't think, "what if that person doesn't like me anymore? will the person want to play with me now?" etc...as an adult, we tend to consider how others may view us after an argument and start to have negative assumptions which may come from our own negativity towards the other person. we think too much and it gets all too complicated. i do wish we were all like children in our spirit, but mature as adults in our faith. great sharing :)
true true... ^^
I liked your characterisation about "well-behaved" manners:)
Altough I think that children love to compete and compete in everything but the difference may be that in the end they often forget that they were competitors and just play together.
I think you meant with compete the the competition between eager and serious competitors who often wants to see the loose.
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