Sermon: God is Overwhelmingly, Ridiculously, Seriously Serious about Saving Us.
This may come as a surprise to some, but probably not: I’ve been told more often than I care to admit to “Act my age.” 99% of the time it is because I was doing something that was determined to be below my age-level.
As more and more responsibility has come my way, the opportunities to act below my age level are getting less and less. Which is lame.
I want to make a quick point to the Body of Christ today: STOP ACTING YOUR AGE.
Seriously. The world has enough people gripped by consumeristic fears, shady schemes, and anxiety about adulting. We need more child-like wonder, joy, dancing, and enthusiasm about simply living.
Matthew 18: 1 – 4 About that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them. Then he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Do you hear the seriousness in Jesus’ voice here? He is tenderly holding a child and laying down an eternal truth about Heaven that should smack us adults right in the face. If we DON’T become like children we will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
He said “NEVER.” Like never-ever. Acting our age has gotten us into more problems than we can probably count. We mask it with serious words like responsibility, or need… But we’re really just offering excuses as to why we worry, why we lack humility, why we ignore some basic commands found in the Bible.
The wonder of belief gets muddied with adult things. Have we put ourselves in serious danger of missing Heaven because of those worries, anxieties, angers, grudges, and the hopelessness that invades too many adults?
Stop acting your age. Experience belief through the eyes of a child – and see Christ in a brand new way again. We may miss out on something big if we don’t.