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This past Christmas, I bought my lovely granddaughter the 70th anniversary copy of Curious George. It contains all the Curious George stories ever written. As my son-in law-read the book to her, my daughter listened and said, "I remember that story!"

Curious George was curious about everything. When my daughter told me about remembering the Curious George stories, I thought how I needed to be curious about God. God made us to be curious. A definition of curious: marked by desire to investigate and learn. The next thing to think about is, who are the most curious people on the planet? The little children would be right in that category. Little children want to get into everything: they are always asking questions and pointing at objects and people. They have a God-given desire to investigate and learn. God put that in us. He made us very good. Genesis 1:31 says: "God saw all that He had made, and it was very good."

Men in mInistry, Jesus said we had to be like little children to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3: " And He said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." "Never enter the kingdom of heaven": not that we will have a hard time getting in, but we will never get in!

God wants us-I would say, He requires us-to be curious: curious about Him, His Word, the mission He has given us, the mission He has for me today. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find. Seek: to go in search of, or to try to discover. It is clear that our mission on earth is to stay curious, keep seeking, never give up the quest to know God.

Men in Ministry, be like little children. Not everything little children do is desirable for us. But think of those characteristics of little children that are desirable. Children were drawn to Jesus; they did not argue who would be first, and children are not absorbed in everything in the world. Small children are basically unpretentious: they are themselves, they have not yet learned to pretend they are someone they are not, they are not deceitful; little children have innocence about them. We also must remember that they also have all the potential for evil inherent in human nature; it just has not yet been drawn out of them by the world.

How do we become like little children, with that purity so that we can enter the kingdom of God? Be curious about God: praying and studying His Word. Have the desire to know Jesus, just like the little children who ran to Him and wanted to be held by Him. The blood of Jesus covers the believer, so that when God looks at us, He sees His Son. We must be dependent on God, like little children, for Him to bring us to the place of innocence and purity.

Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. I all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.

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