Become A Child

The Bible says we should become like children.  What?  Well, God is like a child, so why not you?  An example: A little child will forgive a parent who messes up, say with alcohol.  The child knows that something is the matter by say, the smell or the look of the parent.  The child still loves, and hopes the parent will be better.  There is no hate or rejection yet in the child.  When the parent finally sobers up or straightens out, the parent suspects that the child must hate or reject them.  The parent feels guilty and ashamed.  But the child just loves and now enjoys the recovered parent.  Is this not the way it is with God?  We mess up.  We feel ashamed when we awaken.  We feel that God will or ought to punish us.  There is no such God except in our imaginations or pulpit sermons.  God is love.  God is always hopeful and forgiving.  God waits.  Why not enjoy this God today?  Then become like a little child with others who are practicing bad behavior.