“I can’t wait to be a grownup”, one of our granddaughters remarked to me.

And I naturally replied, “Don’t rush it. Stay little for a bit more.”

Years ago, friend said to me, “I’ll never grow up!” She was quite serious, saying it quite proudly, almost as if wearing a badge of honor.

At one point in our lives, we truly cannot wait to grow up – to go to high school, to drive a car, to get a job, to marry, to have children. And then comes the turning point, when having reached some or all of those achievements, we regress to a childlike state.

Jesus tells us we are to “become like children”:

“And He called a child to Himself and set him among them, and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you change and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:2-3, NASB)

Jesus meant for us to come in humility, in trust, in faith. Not the same thing as never growing up.

Christ instructs us to grow up. He tells us to grow up for our own good as there are benefits to maturity.

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