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A Note on Being Childlike:
When we speak of being childlike, we often reference the “trust” that a child has for a parent. However true this may be, a very young child’s trust is broader than that, really infinitely broader. Indeed, a young child trusts everything, trusts everything to be good and well, every relationship with every person, place or thing in all of the span of creation. They expect it because they were made for it, were made for a beautiful world of harmony and joy – a world for which God made us all, a world in which all desires were compatible and good.
In the fallen world, it is the sad and narrow duty of a parent to help a child acclimate themselves to the hostility and indifference of the greatest part of what they expect to experience as joy. We must revere the crying infant who cannot understand where his world of right relationship has gone, and who rightly laments that all is ruined. Even were he the only suffering being in all the world, for his sake, God is in agony.
Let us, then, “trust” in the truly childlike way, where we do not cease believing that all (ALL) good things will be ours in Christ.
“Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you… In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world.” (John 16: 15, 33)
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