Becoming Children Day 13

“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18: 1-3)

Well there it is! What else is there to say? Jesus lays it right out there as to how you and I are going to enter the kingdom of heaven.

He is not beating around the bush, he is not talking in parables, and he is stating clearly what we must do to enter the kingdom of heaven.

He is even telling us, we must change. Change what? We spend our whole life becoming self sufficient. We are born, we learn to talk, to walk to tie our shoes and go in to the world. We are constantly becoming what it means to be an adult.

In the eyes of the world, this is a very hard teaching to understand. It may be hard for us to understand now.

However, Jesus is talking about an interior disposition. One of docility trust and dependence.

How do we cultivate interior dispositions? Let alone change them? What is an interior disposition anyway?

These are all the things I am thinking while listening to a sermon on this particular Scripture reading.

It’s like that, I think, when Our Lord wants to get our full attention on something. He pricks that place in us which causes us to stop, as it is painful. Not all together physically painful but truthfully painful. You know the kind, as our hearts know truth when our ears are open to hear it.

Because let’s face it, we have heard this message since we were physically children and we have heard it every year in some form or another. It’s just another Bible story until we {hear} it with the ears of our hearts.

If this has happened to you, in some variation, then you know what I mean. Once that happens, we are called to make a choice, called to change.

Unless you change your interior disposition, you will not enter the kingdom heaven.

An interior disposition is in essence how we talk with ourselves, how we process events outsides of ourselves. It is our unique way we view the world. It is the place where we meet the divine in complete silence. The cell that St. Faustina and others write about. It is our quite place with our creator.

In this place our Lord is calling us to change, to become completely dependent on him for all things. To be docile to the promptings of the spirit. To trust that he has our best interest at heart. Knowing that he would never leave us orphans, alone and forgotten!

It’s so easy and yet so hard.

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