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  CHILDLIKENESS
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: To be childlike in faith means to trust in God's love and
sovereignty, and to rest in His power and guidance.

Topics: "Childlike Faith", "Trusting God"
Scripture References: Matthew 18:3, Matthew 19:14, Mark 10:15, Luke 18:17, 1 Corinthians 14:20

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the importance of childlikeness in
receiving the Kingdom of God, emphasizing the need for perfect trust,
resting in God's love, and living in His power. Childlikeness involves
simplicity, joy, contentment in one's circumstances, singleness of
intention, yielding of the will, and forgetfulness of self in favor of
God's claims. To be childlike in the pure sense is to live in God as
one's Father, Preserver, and Guide, recognizing His perpetual Presence
and Providence.

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Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as
a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

LUKE 18:17

DEAR Soul, couldst thou become a child

While yet on earth, meek, undefiled,

Then God Himself were ever near,

And Paradise around thee here.

GERHARD TERSTEEGEN

CHILDLIKENESS, in its Scripture sense, is a perfectness of trust, a
resting in a Father's love, a being borne on in its power, living in it
--it means a simplicity which resolves all into the one idea of lowly
submissiveness to One in whom it lives; a buoyancy of spirit, which is a
fountain of joy in itself, always ready to spring forth afresh brightly
and happily to meet the claims of the present hour, not looking
lingeringly back to the past, nor making plans independently, as of
oneself, for the future; a resting contented in one's lot, whatever that
lot may be; a singleness of intention; a pliancy, a yielding of the
will, a forgetfulness of self in another's claims. To be thus childlike
in the pure sense of such an ideal, is to be living in God, as one's
Father, one's Preserver, one's Guide, felt to be a perpetual Presence
and Providence.

T. T. CARTER

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/childlikeness/
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