We all have a deep childlike need for the love, affirmation and validation that comes from God alone. There was a time in our lives when our parents acted as messengers of God in their love for us. Growing to maturity doesn’t mean we outgrow this need. Rather it means that we learn to transcend being our parents’ children and rise up to be children of God. To access the father heart of God we must become the children that we are. You can’t know the father until you choose to be the child. We must take off the garb of our self-made identities and let the child emerge. God wants to strip back your self-made dignity-mask because he loves the raw child underneath and he wants to bless this child. God doesn’t want to embrace a mask; he wants to kiss the face of the vulnerable child. When I was a child, I never remember being afraid with my parents. As long as I was with them, I felt secure. The only thing I feared was not being with my parents. This is how it should also be for us as a child of God. Tragically, however, many people choose to trust and depend on their own abilities to get through life. In doing this they place a burden on themselves that no human being was meant to bear. Jesus calls us to become like little children again so that we can know God as Father. The more you trust, the more you will know him.
If you feel alienated from God do what a child would do. Cry out to him.
Read Matthew 18:1-9 and Mark 9:33-37.
