Like a child...

Today I did what few men would ever venture to do. I took my 8 month old son to walmart, just us. lol. As he and I were going through the store, just looking around and picking up some carrots for a roast I was making (yes... i cook), everyone in the store it seemed was walking by pointing at my son and saying "aww look how cute the baby is" and "its a baby!" (a few times i felt like saying, "no... he's my twin.. he's just really little for his age")
And this got me thinking...
Typically when you see a cute little kid anywhere, what's your first reaction? To look at the kid and do the whole "awww" thing. In some people seeing a child will either make them want one or want to be one again.
So many different times in the Bible we see Jesus talking w/ his disciples and children coming to him. The disciples start telling the kids to get lost, but Jesus rebukes them and tells them to let the kids come to him. He then even goes on to say that if we want to get to heaven, we've got to be like these children.
Now, I've heard a lot of things gleened from these sayings of Christ. (believe things the way a child would, be curious like a child, etc...) but something dawned on me today as I pushed my son through walmart in a cart and everyone was looking at him. Be like a child. As Christians, when we walk through this world, we need to live our lives differently than how the everyone else does. We need to live in such a way, that when someone sees us, they stop and go "awww look at that... it's a Christ-follower... I want what they have".
When was the last time that people stopped what they were doing and wanted to know why you were different from the culture we live in? Has that ever happened? Why not?
Be like the little children. Be the person that catches the world's eye and makes them either want to be around Christ or want to be his follower.
Love God... Love people... Serve the world
Jpack