The value of being like children

SUMMARY: Jesus tells us to be like children again, not in a literal sense, but in terms of trusting and removing acquired predispositions. Our childhood experiences shape our responses to situations, but with a new birth in Christ, we can start anew and learn to walk with Him. Trust in Him and understand your new identity.

I have always been struck by Christ's insistence that we go back to being children. I have learned something, a child does not rationalize, does not intellectualize, a child experiences his feelings. A child who was abandoned by his mother or father feels excruciating fear, bordering on panic. The rest of your life , the mere thought of loneliness will make you panic again even though you are in more company than ever. The same happens when a child witnesses acts of violence, that visceral fear will be repeated with the sole thought that this can be repeated.


When we stop being children we have accumulated an experience throughout the personality maturation process that leads us to presuppose things before they happen. It is very simple, before a certain action there is a response, the first time this happens is determining how the following responses will be to different situations in our life.