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Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.


John 1:12


Why is it important that we begin this relationship with God as a child? Elsewhere, it was Jesus who said this:


I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.


Luke 18:17


I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.


John 3:3


What is it about new life that it is made to begin the way our first birth began? How might our children teach us about what it might mean to be born again in Christ?


Those are big questions. The thing that sticks out first to me is that children need everything. They are helpless without a parent. Babies/Children depend on parents to supply food, shelter, security, and love. Does God want us to depend on him like that?


Sure sounds like it.