Teaching and Learning IV

 ...that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are.

 - From 1 John 3

Jesus said that, to enter into the Kingdom of God, you must become as a child. 

But was He talking about a child living in Judea, ca AD 30? Can we include children in 2018, in the list?

Must we become like a child that backtalks his or her parents? A child that has seen any kind of porn imaginable by the time he's eleven? A child that has no siblings and lives with his mother and step-dad? A child that has every material possession he could want?

Of course . . . yes, those children are included. Children in Christ's day were not perfect. And we have to believe that children are still children, no matter how much we age them with our racy culture. 

Maturity takes time and experience. And a spoiled brat can still cry, can feel lonely, can yearn to be loved. A child that has seen it all, still would never dream of shooting up a crowd, or taking his or her own life, or throwing away her entire future on drugs . . . at least not until she's thirteen years old. 

Children are children, even if we introduce evil to them, at too young of an age. 

And our attitude should be that of children. We are children. And if we're honest we will observe adults that act as childish as children. They (we) do that all the time. And this is why we need Christ.

Our attitude, as teachers and mentors must be humbled by the realization that we are children too. We're just bigger than the youngsters.