Unless we become as dependent and trusting as children in our relationship with our heavenly Father we will never enter into His kingdom. Just as we were totally dependent upon our earthly parents for our earthly survival we must become totally dependent upon our Creator for our eternal survival. For those of us who came from dysfunctional families where love and acceptance were not always the given it will be either the hardest thing that we will ever do OR we learned as children that the only One who loved us was God. He loved us so much that He gave the life of His only begotten sinless Son in exchange for the likes of us.
Matthew 18 contains the fourth of five discourses in Matthew's Gospel. The theme of this discourse is humility.
18:1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
2 Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, 3 and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.
6 "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
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