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Hi, sorry, finally responding to your question on what is child like faith!
Well this is what I have always believed it was, according to these
three scriptures that Jesus spoke!
1): Matt. 18 Jesus said, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom as a little child,
shall not enter there in.
2):Unless you be converted, and become as little children,
ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
3):Suffer the little children to come unto me,
for such is the kingdom of heaven.
So with Jesus saying become as little children to enter the kingdom,
and as little children, such is the kingdom of heaven,
and receiving the kingdom of heaven as a little child to enter there in,
makes me believe that there must be a very significant reason why
the Lord Jesus gave basically 3 commandments, or ways that we are
to enter into his kingdom, and that it must be pretty important!
First, you have to receive the kingdom of heaven, before you can enter
into the kingdom of heaven. So receiving the kingdom, and
entering into the kingdom, must be on a very simple child like level.
For we have seen how that the very Word made Flesh, the Creator of
Heavens and Earth, walked among the well learned Scribes and Pharisee's,
the top ranked preachers and pastors of their day if you will, and they
completely missed the kingdom of heaven! And He even
told them, that they were of their father the devil!
The bible also says, that Jesus was called, and went to, the needy and unlearned!
So is the Lord saying that we should just be simple and unlearned in the
scripture? No, I don't believe that at all, as we are commanded to study the word
to show our selves approved as the Bible teaches.
But, as completely understanding what Jesus said about receiving the kingdom
of heaven as little children, I think that it's only attainable, with child like faith.
For in order to believe, you first have to have faith to believe right!
So as the bible say's, that we have to have faith with believing, to receive anything
from God, including our Salvation!
Look at little children and how easily they believe what they are told, and taught.
For you cant believe with out having faith. So you can see how simple their little
faith is in believing, because they don't have all the worldly knowledge,
and reasoning and untrusted feelings and everything else that we as
grown ups have tangled up inside us, that so hinders our faith many times!
My thoughts recently upon your request for understanding what is childlike faith,
made me ponder upon the people who exemplified CHILD LIKE FAITH in the bible.
Like Noah, who I can see with CHILD LIKE FAITH, simply believed God when he said it
was going to rain, so build an ark. Noah didn't ask God any questions with reasoning
about how is it going to rain! He just believed it and by simple faith built the ark
that ended up saving his whole family!
Like David, who when King Saul tried to take away his CHILD LIKE FAITH by wearing
his armor and using his advanced fighting skills with his sword. David took it all
off and said let me go with what God had given me,
and that was CHILD LIKE FAITH! He didn't reason how is this little stone going
to kill Goliath, but it did!
Like Israel, who didn't reason with God about how the walls of Jericho could
fall down after marching around them seven times. They just simply believed
and obeyed, and the walls fell!
Like Jesus, who himself even exemplified CHILD LIKE FAITH,
in spitting and making mud and placing it upon blinded eye's that
he healed! But the blinded Pharisee's with un-child like faith,
believed not in this miracle!
Like the Centurion, who with CHILD LIKE FAITH amazed Jesus,
when he said unto him, Master, I need not that you come unto
my house and pray that my servant may be healed,
just speak the word! And Jesus said unto him and all who were around,
I have not seen such great faith, as in all of Israel!
Why, because with his simple Child Like Faith, he knew that
Jesus need not come and pray a long fancy Pharisee Prayer,
but just simply believing said, Master, just speak the word!
Jesus spoke the word, and said, be it unto you, according to your
faith. And from that very hour, his servant was healed!
But with Simian, he reasoned with un-child like faith and
questioned the Angel of the Lord that came to him, and it angered God,
and he was struck as a Dumb man, until his wife who with
CHILD LIKE FAITH received the Promise, gave birth to
the Prophet John the Baptist!
As I think of the hundreds of miracles and mighty things that
God has done in the lives of his people in the Bible,
I'm made to stop and wonder, do we not have the many
Miracles they had back then, because we have failed to
understand simple CHILD LIKE FAITH?
Well this is what I have always believed it was, according to these
three scriptures that Jesus spoke!
1): Matt. 18 Jesus said, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom as a little child,
shall not enter there in.
2):Unless you be converted, and become as little children,
ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
3):Suffer the little children to come unto me,
for such is the kingdom of heaven.
So with Jesus saying become as little children to enter the kingdom,
and as little children, such is the kingdom of heaven,
and receiving the kingdom of heaven as a little child to enter there in,
makes me believe that there must be a very significant reason why
the Lord Jesus gave basically 3 commandments, or ways that we are
to enter into his kingdom, and that it must be pretty important!
First, you have to receive the kingdom of heaven, before you can enter
into the kingdom of heaven. So receiving the kingdom, and
entering into the kingdom, must be on a very simple child like level.
For we have seen how that the very Word made Flesh, the Creator of
Heavens and Earth, walked among the well learned Scribes and Pharisee's,
the top ranked preachers and pastors of their day if you will, and they
completely missed the kingdom of heaven! And He even
told them, that they were of their father the devil!
The bible also says, that Jesus was called, and went to, the needy and unlearned!
So is the Lord saying that we should just be simple and unlearned in the
scripture? No, I don't believe that at all, as we are commanded to study the word
to show our selves approved as the Bible teaches.
But, as completely understanding what Jesus said about receiving the kingdom
of heaven as little children, I think that it's only attainable, with child like faith.
For in order to believe, you first have to have faith to believe right!
So as the bible say's, that we have to have faith with believing, to receive anything
from God, including our Salvation!
Look at little children and how easily they believe what they are told, and taught.
For you cant believe with out having faith. So you can see how simple their little
faith is in believing, because they don't have all the worldly knowledge,
and reasoning and untrusted feelings and everything else that we as
grown ups have tangled up inside us, that so hinders our faith many times!
My thoughts recently upon your request for understanding what is childlike faith,
made me ponder upon the people who exemplified CHILD LIKE FAITH in the bible.
Like Noah, who I can see with CHILD LIKE FAITH, simply believed God when he said it
was going to rain, so build an ark. Noah didn't ask God any questions with reasoning
about how is it going to rain! He just believed it and by simple faith built the ark
that ended up saving his whole family!
Like David, who when King Saul tried to take away his CHILD LIKE FAITH by wearing
his armor and using his advanced fighting skills with his sword. David took it all
off and said let me go with what God had given me,
and that was CHILD LIKE FAITH! He didn't reason how is this little stone going
to kill Goliath, but it did!
Like Israel, who didn't reason with God about how the walls of Jericho could
fall down after marching around them seven times. They just simply believed
and obeyed, and the walls fell!
Like Jesus, who himself even exemplified CHILD LIKE FAITH,
in spitting and making mud and placing it upon blinded eye's that
he healed! But the blinded Pharisee's with un-child like faith,
believed not in this miracle!
Like the Centurion, who with CHILD LIKE FAITH amazed Jesus,
when he said unto him, Master, I need not that you come unto
my house and pray that my servant may be healed,
just speak the word! And Jesus said unto him and all who were around,
I have not seen such great faith, as in all of Israel!
Why, because with his simple Child Like Faith, he knew that
Jesus need not come and pray a long fancy Pharisee Prayer,
but just simply believing said, Master, just speak the word!
Jesus spoke the word, and said, be it unto you, according to your
faith. And from that very hour, his servant was healed!
But with Simian, he reasoned with un-child like faith and
questioned the Angel of the Lord that came to him, and it angered God,
and he was struck as a Dumb man, until his wife who with
CHILD LIKE FAITH received the Promise, gave birth to
the Prophet John the Baptist!
As I think of the hundreds of miracles and mighty things that
God has done in the lives of his people in the Bible,
I'm made to stop and wonder, do we not have the many
Miracles they had back then, because we have failed to
understand simple CHILD LIKE FAITH?
