Kingdom KinderKids (Poem)

Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

That Jesus loves little children is generally well-known.

To that I say, ‘Who wouldn’t? What’s not to love?’

It’s gentleness that their hearts are full of,

Though, like us, it’s Adam’s nature they’re full of,

But unlike us, it has yet to grow up to become …well-honed!

One day while on His ministry circuit,

He rebuked all His disciples for not letting,

Little children to come to Him for a blessing--

Set-up for an earlier point He’d been pressing,

One from which we, today, can benefit. 

His earlier point was that entrance into Heaven,

Requires us to become ‘as mere children.’

Egos were crushed, that’s what I imagine.

In their ‘Who’ll be greatest’ competition,

They’d obviously ‘not learned’ His earlier lesson.

Before becoming as mere children, babes we must first become.

Recall, we are ‘born into’ The Kingdom of Heaven,

Into a place that, to us, is so very foreign.

To remain as babes and children is not an option.

Maturity beckons for tests and trials we must overcome.

But maturity does not mean being ‘all grown up’, I’ve learned.

Moreover, there are many stages of maturity!

It requires Love, time, patience, hard work and persistency,

Plus lots of prayer that’s of the kind, intercessory.

Even then, that’s not being ‘all grown up’, is what I’ve discerned. 

So what qualifies as being ‘all grown up’ in Jesus Christ??

I believe it’s not in this life, not even in the rapture!!

It's when, with Him, we’ll return for His millennial venture,

Unified to be part of His …governance superstructure.

Ahhh, that’s the ‘all grown up’ life that most certainly will suffice.

Then no longer are we children, tossed to and fro,

Carried about with winds of doctrine, by men’s deceitfulness, 

In the cunning craftiness of their plotting -- vindictiveness,

But all grown up in Him, speaking Truth in Love -- effectiveness, *

Fully equipped Earth’s governments to overthrow!

Yep, Jesus loves little children, for such is Heaven’s Kingdom.

For us to MATURE and GROW UP, that’s His desire, unarguably.

But for now, so many of us are not mature, undeniably.

Nor are we yet unified, speaking Truth in Love, unquestionably. 

But when we return (!!!), we’ll function in …perfect synergism.  

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^* And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the Truth in Love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of The Body for the edifying of itself in Love. (Ephesians 4:11-16)