What does God mean when He says we have to be like children to enter the Kingdom of God??
Jesus:
“I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless you repent [that is, change your inner self—your old way of thinking, live changed lives]
AND
become like children [trusting, humble, and forgiving],
You will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Whoever receives and welcomes one child like this in My name receives Me;
but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble and sin [by leading him away from My teaching], it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:3-6
Psalms- Simplicity of a Child
Lord , my heart is not proud,
nor my eyes haughty;
Nor do I involve myself in great matters,
Or in things too difficult for me.
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul;Like a weaned child [resting] with his mother…
My soul is like a weaned child within me [composed and freed from discontent].
O Israel, hope in the Lord From this time forth and forever.
