Faith Like Little Children

The bible teaches us that Christians should have faith like little children. This often is turned into a play on words to drive home the point that we need to be "born again". For the record, I believe that people need a rebirth and I am not saying otherwise. I would however like to float out another thought about the faith of little children. Could the bible accually be saying that our faith should be like that of children? Mainsteam american evangalicals find such thoughts troubling becouse they commonly believe that little children can't have faith. They watch the kids growing up, waiting ever so nervously for them to reach an age were they can have "real faith". I'll share a story that got me thinking about all this. Last week Noah was sick with some sort of bug. He was pretty sick, with a fever and all. As Leah and I are getting out medicine and comforting him and worring about what we could do for him, John who is 3, comes up with a novel idea. John interupts our confusion and doctoring, to say "We should pray that God would help Noah feel better". Hmmm, Ok, why the heck is a 3 year old reminding me to pray. Its one of those time where you are so happy and proud of the boy, yet ashamed that you the grown up had to be reminded, by a 3 year old, to have faith like someone that was redeemed by the blood of Christ. Fast forward..... Noah gets better. Noah and John are playing together, Dad is reading a very important book on theology, Mom reading important book by Doug Wilson. John walks over with Noah to Mom and Dad. John says"We should pray and thank God for makin' Noah feel better". Perhaps the bible does teach we should have faith like little children.