Comments on: Childlike Faith

By: brittany

brittany — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:07:33 +0000

It is psalm 116:6 not five In the new living translation it says The Lord Protects those of childlike faith

good stuff

By: Michael K.

Michael K. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:18:47 +0000

Right on, Becky. Here’s what my dad emailed me today along the same lines:
“I’ve thought about the Suffer the little children … passage a lot and what child-like faith really means. I would add blind trust to the list. Having watched you guys grow up, it’s very obvious that until a child begins to question, either by being taught to question or by learning to question through experience, he/she will believe and accept anything. I think about how many times we gave you guys medicine or just something to eat. You never questioned it, just accepted it. It’s in a child’s nature to trust. I think child-like faith is total, unconditional, unquestionable trust in God and His promises. So easy as a child, so difficult sometimes as an adult. Even Jesus questioned.”

By: Becky Dietz

Becky Dietz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:35:51 +0000

Trusting.

By: Michael K.

Michael K. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:04:09 +0000

Love that, Ryan. Thanks for adding to the conversation.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:26:49 +0000

These are great examples. I have one to add that borders one or two of these. It comes from watching my five year old daughter ask Jesus for forgiveness of “all the bad things she’s done.” She told me as though I didn’t know already that Jesus had died on the cross (she goes to a Christian school). The thing is that she is so sure of that because she believes what her teacher tells her about everything. Thus, I’d have to say that to be childlike is also to be impressionable — but impressionable by the right authority figures. She simply knows that Jesus died on the cross for our sins because a person who she resprects told her so. That is childlike faith — just like “for the Bible told me so.”