IF YOU WILL TEACH ME

(Matthew 18:3) And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

You can learn a lot from children. Like love, forgiveness, and faith.

I read a story one time of how a man had lost his wife, a little boy had went over to visit the man. When he returned home a little later the mother asked him what he said to the man. The boy replied, "Nothing, Mommy. I just helped him cry." This boy knew how to show love.

Two children can be playing and end up getting into a fight. The next day you can see those same children playing like nothing had ever happened. These children knew how to forgive.

Faith. What is faith? The basic definition is: belief, trust, and reliance. A child believes everything you tell them - without question. If you take him outside, show him a blue sky and tell him that the sky is green, he will believe you. That same child can end up going to school and the teacher will show a card with a blue square on it and tell them that "this is the color blue" and that child will protest and say, "Daddy, says it's green". That teacher will have to unteach what that child was taught.

A child trusts their parents completely. A parent may say to their child, "Jump and I'll catch you". That child will jump trusting their parent to catch them.

A child relies upon their parents for everything. For all their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Just like children, we need to learn to BELIEVE God's word, TRUST Him to KEEP His word, and RELY upon Him to OBEY is word.
(Ephesians 5:1) Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Here in Ephesians, the Greek word for followers means an imitator (Strongs #G3402). Paul is not talking about being a cheap imitation of something. He is talking about us aspiring to be like someone you look up to, someone you admire and long to be like. 

When my nephew, Mark, was little, he would get his play tractor, prop it up on something, crawl under it and pretend that he was working on it. He was imitating his Daddy. 
Just like children imitate their parents, we should endeavor to imitate our Heavenly Father.

Years ago, a woman was watching a news program concerning the famine over in Africa. As the camera showed pictures of little boys and girls starving, she noticed this one boy. For some unexplainable reason, she knew she had to adopt this boy. So, after she went through all the red tape, she met the boy at the airport and said:

"I have brought you here to be my son."

The boy looked up at her and said:

"I do not know what that means, but if you will teach me, I will learn."

Father, I don't fully know what it means to be your child, but if you will teach me, I will learn.