God Wants A Child

Mark 10:15 (NLT)

“I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

There is a child in me—the part of my heart that once trusted without hesitation, believed without proof, and loved without fear. That child is the part of me that knows how to walk with God the way Jesus intended.

But along the journey of life, that child gets hurt.

Trauma, rejection, disappointment, and confusion slowly break her down. And before I realize it, I’m no longer approaching God with wonder or trust. Even when I see the Savior, I struggle to recognize Him. Receiving Him feels hard. Vulnerability feels risky.

So I begin to ask the hard question: How do I enter the Kingdom of God when the child in me feels broken?

When you’ve been battered by life, faith can become transactional. God becomes someone you go to only when you need help—an emergency button, an automated service machine. Prayer becomes routine. Expectations shrink. Encounters become rare.

Yet Jesus wants more than that.

Every time He invites us into His presence—especially in those quiet, intimate moments—He wants us to come with expectation. He wants us to come believing. He wants us to come without doubt, trusting deeply that “Daddy is going to do it.”

That is how children come.

Children laugh even in the face of danger. They leap without calculating the fall. They trust completely, knowing that even if they are thrown into the air, their father will catch them. They are not afraid of breaking because they believe they are held.

This is the posture God is calling us back to.

“Come to Me as a child.”

You don’t need to hide your nakedness from Me. I already see it all. I see the wounds. I see the fear. I see the shame. But I want you to open it all up—freely and honestly—believing that I can take care of it.

So I ask you gently: Where is your child-self?

Did pain harden you so much that your expectations of God became small? Did rejection teach you to stop hoping? Has disappointment reduced your faith to asking only for “safe” blessings—the bare minimum, the little treats—because you’re afraid to trust Him with more?

Jesus came to give us the fullness of the Kingdom, not scraps. But before we can receive the weight of what He offers, He asks us to return to childlike faith.

Even broken and injured children still run to loving parents. They may cry, limp, or cling—but they come. And in the same way, we are invited to bring our hurt, confusion, and brokenness to Jesus.

Because if He can restore our souls, He can restore the child within us.

We can only enter God’s Kingdom like a child.

This is not just symbolic.

It is deeply—beautifully—literal.

God wants us to embrace His light but He also wants us to come as children.

God wants the child in you.

Stay Revived!