I have recently had the opportunity to spend time with an eleven year old girl. It has been an interesting experience, to say the least.
She is very opinionated, and she sees everything in black and white. If someone she knows says something, it must be true. If one or a few people act or look a certain way, then that is how everyone must be. She is sure she knows best in many things in her life.
I remember Jesus said that we must be like little children when it comes to God. I suspect he referred more to that innocent sense of trust, and not so much the arguing and whining over every request made of them.
But young people (She laughed when I said that some her age might be offended to be called 'children'.) Seem so sure of themselves. I envy them that, even though I know it's an illusion. Children hold tight to what they know, so they can counteract uncertainty with the familiar. What has been always well be, because change is scary.
Now that sounds familiar. And God, like a good parent wants to guide and teach His children, so they can grow and be unafraid as they walk through life.
That is a comforting thought.
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