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Conference yukon::christian_v7

Title:The CHRISTIAN Notesfile
Notice:Jesus reigns! - Intros: note 4; Praise: note 165
Moderator:ICTHUS::YUILLEON
Created:Tue Feb 16 1993
Last Modified:Fri May 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:962
Total number of notes:42902

512.0. "Remember When you were a Child?" by JULIET::MORALES_NA (Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze) Thu Jun 30 1994 02:19

   ...... you were 7 ???
    
    My son who is 7 found a gas cap and he had dreamed up that this was
    some ancient article that had an exotic story behind it... oh his
    imagination ran wild.
    
    Oh to be childlike always... in everything...
   
    Jesus said that we must be like children to enter the kingdom of
    heaven... 
    
    What characteristics do children have?  What characteristic if you
    could pick one would you choose?
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512.1Childlike faith!MKOTS3::GELEARISE,SHINE,FOR THE LIGHT HAS COMEThu Jun 30 1994 04:3912
    One of the characteristics that I appreciate is trust. When "daddy"
    says he is going to do something for his kids they believe he will do
    it. My kids know that I will keep my word. I suppose what I am really
    trying to convey is that they dont need to know the HOW , because they
    simply believe we WILL. Many times in receiving God's word I will try
    to figure out how he will make it come to pass, instead of just saying
    "I dont know how, but I know he will".
    
     If it doesnt make sense,forgive me Ive been up all night.
    
                          In His service:
                             Sylvain
512.2ICTHUS::YUILLEThou God seest meThu Jun 30 1994 05:1410
With you there, Sylvain.

A child trusts.  It's only as they get hurt from voices which deceive, that 
trust gets tempered with reserve.  Sometimes so early that they seem to 
have no childhood....

Now if only I obeyed Him without pausing to let my own reaction interrupt, 
we would get on so much quicker and easier...

							Andrew
512.3GIDDAY::BURTStick this fish in your earSun Jul 03 1994 19:4614
re <<< Note 512.2 by ICTHUS::YUILLE "Thou God seest me" >>>


>A child trusts.  It's only as they get hurt from voices which deceive, that 

David (now 5!) was complaining that one of the kids had been calling him 
"gullible". We told explained to him that it meant that he believed what he 
was told. We then suggested that he tell the kid that he expected to be told 
the truth.

We haven't had any problems with that for a while.


Chele
512.4ICTHUS::YUILLEThou God seest meMon Jul 04 1994 07:3327
 "At that time, the disciples came to Jesus and asked 'Who is the greatest 
  in the kingdom of heaven?'  He called a little child and had him stand 
  among them.  And He said: 'I tell you the truth, unless you change and 
  become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
  Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the
  kingdom of heaven." 
							Matthew 18:1-4

Similar passages can be found at Mark 9:33 and Luke 9:46

We've identified a simple trust in the LORD as being a child-like virtue, 
but when I looked back at the passage, it was a direct response to the 
disciple's pride.  Something that seemed to come to the surface regularly 
amongst them - 
	"Yes, LORD, You're the leader, but which of us comes next??"
And his response is to say - 
	"You've missed it by even asking such a question."

The point is not to rate ourselves by comparison with those around, but to 
keep our eyes on Him; to walk like Him more each day, to draw nearer to 
Him.  For that we need a humility which doesn't insist on a 'pecking 
order'; a love that serves, rather than rules.

Wish I could have seen that child... ;-)

								Andrew