February 2025 – Matthew – Part 2
My favourite month of the year purely because its my birthday month! There’s something about celebrating that is entrenched deep within me, and that I love to do! I love celebrating, I love taking moments to be grateful, I love marking moments with memories, I love being alive! Celebration and parties are often something that children, well actually their parents, and more particularly their moms, often create space for. I remember as a mom of a young toddler, then a pre-schooler, that many weekends, or even afternoons during the week, were spent at birthday parties. I loved planning and putting together celebrations for our daughter, and still enjoy making birthdays special!
A scripture we will read this month goes like this:
“Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18:3
I don’t believe this is saying have more parties, but I do believe that having a child-like faith is an element of our walking with Jesus that we could adopt and grow in more and more. Michael Eaton writes on these verses and comments that Children don’t know much about life – they take life as it comes and learn as they go. They also don’t have much power – they have to do as they are told. …..The particular change that is required is to become childlike, open to whatever God puts before us knowing our own powerlessness. It is this deliberate self-humbling that will lead to the blessings of the kingdom of God. The more we are childlike in this way, the greater we are in the kingdom of God.“
Enjoy reading the rest of the book of Matthew this month, celebrate moments, and may we trust Jesus more each day!
February’s reading plan is available to download. Click here to find it.
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