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"Childlike” our priest explained, is to have a | "Childlike” our priest explained, is to have a — the Father. Childlike is to respect, recognize, obey, love, and need the Father. A "childlike" faith is humble, honest, and yearning for the Father. Such faith may be that of a child -- pure, unquestioning love for one's protector, but it is not in replacement of the intellect. | ||
When Satan tempted Adam and Eve to "be like God", he was tempting them to no longer be God's children. Salvation, then, is the return to childhood with the Father. God doesn't owe us that inheritance, but he wants us to ask for it back. As our Deacon taught the other day, St. Thomas called it "congruent merit" that we merit but do not deserve salvation, for which we become worthy only through and by Christ. In Matthew 11, Jesus isn't telling us to be simpletons, he's telling us, rather plainly, now that I can see it (scales falling from the eyes), that we must accept and act like we have a (the) Father. | When Satan tempted Adam and Eve to "be like God", he was tempting them to no longer be God's children. Salvation, then, is the return to childhood with the Father. God doesn't owe us that inheritance, but he wants us to ask for it back. As our Deacon taught the other day, St. Thomas called it "congruent merit" that we merit but do not deserve salvation, for which we become worthy only through and by Christ. In Matthew 11, Jesus isn't telling us to be simpletons, he's telling us, rather plainly, now that I can see it (scales falling from the eyes), that we must accept and act like we have a (the) Father. | ||