IIT UBF - University Bible Fellowship at IIT

Daily Bread

Key Verse: 18:3

First, be like little children (1-9). The main characteristic of little children is that they are trusting and unpretentious. If you ask a little child "Who is your daddy?" he will invariably point to him. If you ask further "How do you know?" you will get a puzzled look as if to say "What a silly question. I know he is my daddy because he is!" In the same way, we come to God with simple faith, knowing that because of the cross he is our Father. "They knew with certainty..." (Jn 17:8). And if anyone asks how we know that God is our Father, like little children we respond "Because he is!" This is childlike trust in the finished work on the cross, and it is necessary to be born again and enter the kingdom of heaven. Children are also unselfconscious and as a result unpretentious. A child of God is not aware of the will of God because he is the will of God. Dear children, become what you are - become like little children.

Second, 'little ones' who stray (10-13). Although it is impossible for a believer ('little one') to be eternally lost (Jn 10:28), it is God's set purpose that not even one of his children go astray.

Prayer: Dear Lord, please grant us grace to become like little children, setting aside all sin, even self-awareness; instead, grant us to become unselfconsciously aware only of you.

One Word: Become like little children.