Revelations: Like a Child

I'd like to share something very personal and recent. I had a word come to me from seemingly nowhere, be it song lyric or a memory or literally some spirit whispering it to me. I don't rule out the latter in the least after hearing some of the testimonies I've heard from strong, reputable men and women.

The word was "Believe like a child believes." I instantly started to question it, due in part to the skeptical nature I've developed about accepting things at first presentation. After all, the New Testament does repeatedly warn against accepting new flashy ideologies and becoming captivated with worldly philosophy, so I asked the voice what exactly it meant. The answer brought me to tears when it said "When you were a child, you trusted your parents without question. You loved their words and clung to them."

I was driving at the time, but the moment I got home I did a quick search to find exact citations for what I heard, and although the precise words did not appear, two distinct stories appeared in Matthew, Mark and Luke: one about who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, and two about the children being brought to Jesus to be blessed.

Wanting to understand it better, I opened this commentary written by a renown preacher and scholar from the late 1600's/early 1700's, Matthew Henry. Later in this same week, I got together with a small group in which the topic for discussion was "receiving words/revelations from God," or more specifically why we might not be hearing a new word. After getting a chance to talk about what had happened with me, I was reminded of what I was once like, so enthralled in the pursuit of God's word that people around me literally saw that "childlike faith" in me, yet I've still become so obsessed with the logic and the "why" of everything that to some degree I'd forgotten that simple, devoted trust between a child and parent.

We may not have all had such a childhood in which we could love so much the company of our parents, and in just such a situation it may become vitally necessary to seek out that divine healing present only in that Father of all creation. Trust in Him, just as you would want your own child to trust in you.