How to Have Childlike Faith in God: 5 Practical Steps
Photo by Francesco Ungaro on Pexels Somebody told me once that they missed believing in God the way they did at seven years old — no arguments to win, no disappointments to explain, just a Father who was obviously there. Then they apologised, as if that longing was somehow immature. It isn't. Jesus put a child in the middle of a room full of grown men and said this is what the kingdom looks like. If your faith has gotten complicated, tired, or armoured up with reasons — this is for you. Why this is genuinely hard Nobody stays a child on purpose. Life does it to you — bills, diagnoses, betrayals, the years where prayers seemed to go nowhere. You learn to hedge. You learn that trust has a cost, because somewhere along the way trust got broken. Childlike faith sounds sweet until you remember that children are also the most vulnerable people in any room. Being told to become like one can feel like being told to go back to being defenceless, right when you've finally built some wa...