Total Dependence


How quickly we forget the total dependence that a newborn baby has on its parents. The helpless child can do nothing without the assistance of someone else.
Unlike the horse which can stand just moments after it birth, and the duck that can swim hours after arriving in this world, a baby is helpless.
Yes, each baby is born with the instinct to suck and can move basic parts of its body, but the infant would quickly die without someone to meet its every need.
As Christians when we first come to know Jesus as our Savior, we feel completely dependent on Him. We don't know exactly what we should do, or how we should act or what to say, so we rely heavily on Him to show us through His word or a sermon or another person. As we grown in our faith, we become more comfortable and confident in that relationship and begin to spread our wings a bit. Sometimes we even become self-reliant and lose that former dependence.
At that point God may allow certain things in our life to draw us back into a deep fellowship with Him, because God desires for us to rely on Him all day, every day.
Now don't get me wrong and think that I'm advocating for you to stay a baby Christian, because I'm not. I want everyone to become mature and complete, able to understand and obey the deeper things in the faith.
What I am trying to say is no matter how long you have known Jesus, you need to stay close to Him and have total dependence on Him to teach you, to order your steps, and to transform you into His likeness. After all the closer we are to Him, the more we will look like Him.
Matthew 18:2-4 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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