Like I mentioned in my previous post, our Mwangaza children are teaching many of us over here so many things. But perhaps the most important thing our children are teaching us is how to receive.
Friends, these children will teach you how to receive the kingdom of God.
Jesus tells us that the way of entering into His kingdom is by receiving. “Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it” (Luke 18:17).
Notice, we do not enter the kingdom of God by analyzing some deep problem and arriving at its solution. And we do not enter the kingdom of God by working hard to be good enough for God’s approval. We enter it by receiving.
If entrance into God’s kingdom depended on studying and analyzing and working to be righteous on our own, then children (like these Mwangaza children) could never enter it. And neither could we. But thankfully entering the kingdom of God depends upon receiving something, and therefore children can enter.
How does a child receive the kingdom of God? He receives it in simple, humble faith.
That’s why Jesus holds up children (like the Mwangaza children) as an example to us.
These children are able to believe and receive Christ without a mind stuffed with self-righteousness and intellectual, emotional baggage. Yes they are sinners, but often their hearts have yet to be corrupted with preconceived ideas of God and what he should be like. They don’t have a little box for God to fit in. They want him bigger than our self-made boxes.
Charles Spurgeon says that children are “blessed in their ignorance” and that all of us must be delivered from our preconceived notions and “humbly drink in the Word of God” and receive it like children, like these little Mwangaza children.
So have you? Have you come to God not trying to give him something but simply to receive something from Him?
Spurgeon says, “If you want to know what faith in Jesus is, look to the young children who have taken Jesus at His Word, believed in Him, loved Him, and therefore know and are sure they are saved.” Amen!
Whether you are a chaperon on the tour like me, or a host family member or someone in the audience during the Mwangaza performances, you will agree with me, the Mwangaza children will teach you what it means to have a perfect relationship with Jesus Christ and how to enjoy God’s free gift of salvation. To God be the glory, for the wonderful gift of these children.
Henry Muguluma
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