The Necessity of Becoming a Little Child

This world teaches you that life revolves around you, that your chief aim in life should be to please yourself, to let nothing stand in the way of pursuing your dream, and to make yourself great. In other words, the center of the universe is you. Nothing is too good or too great for you.

If we are honest before God, we all struggle with the sin of pride wherein life is not about pleasing the Lord Jesus Christ first and foremost, but is rather about pleasing ourselves. This sin of self-centeredness even manifested itself in the lives of the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us consider their pride and the words of correction uttered to them by the Lord Jesus: (1) The Shame of the Apostles (Matthew 18:1); (2) The Greatness of a Little Child (Matthew 18:2-4).