I was hiking with some friends the other day and we stopped to do a devotion out of the "Everyday Study Bible." We read the commentary regarding I Samuel 16, the part about children and it said that children were the least important in society back in Jesus' day. It made reference to Mark 10:15...."I tell you the truth, you must accept the kingdom as if you were a little child or you will never enter it."
I always thought that meant that you should come to Christ with child-like faith. This commentary says children were regarded as unimportant and did not have faith. So, when Jesus made this statement, he might actually have been telling people to stop thinking so highly of themselves and start thinking more of themselves as little children.
Like the children of the world of Jesus, followers of Jesus need to content themselves with having little or no power to make people act like they want them to act. We can't control other people.
We need to relinquish the way we try to control others. It's not our job to play "junior god." There is a fine line between teaching people and controlling them. As people, we have a hard time hiking that fine line.
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What an awesome blog....you are quite the writer! Maybe you should write a Bible study!!
This is a great post. Thankyou.
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