CHILDLIKE CURIOSITY (4 OF 4)
Scripture: Luke 2:41-52
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Title: Childlike Curiosity (4 of 4)
Series: The Faith of a Child
Author: Dave Gustavsen
Text: Luke 2:41-52
We are taking this fall to focus on the faith of a child. Jesus said, "Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of God." So Jesus invites us to be childlike-not childish-but childlike. So each week we've been looking at children and youth in the Bible, and learning from their example.
From young Samuel, we learned about childlike listening.
From young David, childlike courage.
From young Esther, childlike boldness.
From young Daniel, childlike purity.
And today we come to our final example-from the early life of Jesus himself, we're going to talk about childlike curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
There's a writer named Ralph B. Smith, and he made this observation: he said on average, children ask about 125 questions per day. (Parents-you can verify that, right?) Adults, on average, ask about six questions per day. So somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we lose 119 questions per day. Why is that? Why do so many of us lose our curiosity as we get older? Maybe it's pride-we don't want to look dumb by admitting there's something we don't know. Maybe it's busyness-we're too caught up on the treadmill of life to slow down and ask questions. Or maybe it's exhaustion-we're just too tired to care. Whatever the reason, this is one of those areas that, if we humble ourselves and learn from children, our lives will be so much richer and so much more Christ-like.
So...let's look at today's Scripture. This is the one and only place in the Gospels where there's a scene from the boyhood of Jesus. Luke chapter 2, beginning in verse 41. Let's hear God's Word...
41 Every year Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 Whe ...
Series: The Faith of a Child
Author: Dave Gustavsen
Text: Luke 2:41-52
We are taking this fall to focus on the faith of a child. Jesus said, "Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of God." So Jesus invites us to be childlike-not childish-but childlike. So each week we've been looking at children and youth in the Bible, and learning from their example.
From young Samuel, we learned about childlike listening.
From young David, childlike courage.
From young Esther, childlike boldness.
From young Daniel, childlike purity.
And today we come to our final example-from the early life of Jesus himself, we're going to talk about childlike curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
There's a writer named Ralph B. Smith, and he made this observation: he said on average, children ask about 125 questions per day. (Parents-you can verify that, right?) Adults, on average, ask about six questions per day. So somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we lose 119 questions per day. Why is that? Why do so many of us lose our curiosity as we get older? Maybe it's pride-we don't want to look dumb by admitting there's something we don't know. Maybe it's busyness-we're too caught up on the treadmill of life to slow down and ask questions. Or maybe it's exhaustion-we're just too tired to care. Whatever the reason, this is one of those areas that, if we humble ourselves and learn from children, our lives will be so much richer and so much more Christ-like.
So...let's look at today's Scripture. This is the one and only place in the Gospels where there's a scene from the boyhood of Jesus. Luke chapter 2, beginning in verse 41. Let's hear God's Word...
41 Every year Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 Whe ...
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