Newlyborn

Matthew 18:3
And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

     How do you start the healing process?  I asked God and He gave me this verse and this verse always confused me.  Become like little children?  Why didn't He want us to be mature responsible adults?  Born again?  New in Christ? 
    How many times have we said we would we like to go back and start over, do it differently?  We can.  To be born again and then like a little child.  It's easier to see what He means if you spend any time around small children.  New born babies are totally dependent on their parents.  God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, trusting Him for all our needs.  I heard somebody say once, "Imagine God looking down on you as a parent of a baby would, cooing at you and trying to get you to smile."  I like that.  He wants to parent us, grow us into mature and spiritual adults.  Becoming like a small child would mean being uninhibited.  Isn't one of our biggest fears being judged?  Children are able to hug and love minutes after being hurt or disciplined.  They don't get stuck in the hurt.  We learn more in the first year than any other year of our life.  He wants to teach us.  Children imitate their parents and God wants us to become like Him.  Anger is shortlived.  Children want approval.  God knows us better than anyone.  He knows everything we have done or even thought about doing.  He knows our thoughts and wants and hurts and He still approves of us, not always what we do, but He approves of who we are.  Children want to belong and be a part of.  He wants us all to be united in the body of Christ. 
     In response to our becoming like little children, He wants to guide us, love us, nurse us back to health, give us security and gifts.  He wants to be the parent most of us never had and always wanted.  He wants to raise us to be mature and responsible and spiritual adults.

Ephesians 4:14-16
¹⁴ Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. ¹⁵ Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. ¹⁶ From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.