by Sue

Within each of us, there is the child waiting to escape!

I recall an incident some years ago on a cold autumn day. The leaves had fallen and, having been dried out by the wind, were now spread evenly across the pavement I was walking along.

Seeing the leaves lying there I suddenly felt an irresistible urge to crunch them underneath my feet - so I did!

This childlike feeling had surfaced despite the fact that I was a mother of three and almost 40 years old. I became so engrossed in what I was doing that I didn't realised I was being watched. Then I heard a voice across the road, a neighbour who had watched me 'crunch' my way down the path. And she called out:  "Enjoying yourself?"

I looked up and smiled.
"We never grow up do we?" she said.
And she is right!

For a moment I had found myself doing what the child in me would have done years before.
It made me think of my relationship with Jesus. He wants me to trust Him by exercising a simple, childlike faith - the way a child trusts his parents.
The Bible doesn't exhort us to behave childishly but, in matters of faith, to become childlike.

Jesus was speaking to His disciples when he said:
"Verily I say unto you, except you be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:3)

Simple childlike faith and trust in the Saviour are all we need to ensure our eternal future in the presence of God.

Is yours secure?