Children, what a gift to the world they are. Simple, innocent, curious, playful, fun, oh the joys of children. All they want is food, sleep and attention. The need of every person is found in a child. It is no wonder we are called Children of God and that we are invited to enter the kingdom like a child.

I was thinking about the simplicity of children this morning and in my pondering the Holy Spirit began to reveal to me why we lost our simplicity and exchanged it for complexity. The answer will be hard for some to embrace, but if we were all honest, we know it is true.

Children absorb life, they do not consume it. The first step in losing our childlike innocence is the consuming of information from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The very tree the first command recorded in scripture told us not to eat from.

We were explicitly told if we eat from this tree, if we consume this fruit, we will die. But what did the deceiver, the adversary, the serpent, SATAN say, you will not die, rather you will be like God knowing good and evil. Sounds so delicious, sounds so true, it was the lie we ate and are still eating.

Solomon said it this way in Ecclesiastes 12 “The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd. But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body.”

Our insatiable desire for the knowledge of the tree of good and evil has turned us from simple innocent children who live in awe and wonder, who absorb atmospheres and enjoy life to complicated human beings who argue over the opinions of man. We need to repent for eating from the wrong tree and show our fruit of repentance by eating from the tree of life so we can live again. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org