Evolution by humility: becoming like children

Morning: Psalm 105:1-22; Malachi 2:1-16; Revelation 21:22-22:5

Evening: Psalm 105:23-45; Matthew 18:1-9

Jesus advocates fiercely for the vulnerable, especially children. If you mistreat a child, it will turn out badly for you … (imagine this stark picture) worse than if you were to have an enormous millstone hung around your neck and be thrown into the sea! For Jesus, if you mistreat a child, you deserve almost the harshest consequences imaginable. Moreover, we are to ‘become like children’.  Contrary to Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’, the qualities of humility that characterize children – acknowledgement of our weakness and vulnerability – are, for Jesus, the real signposts to a more highly evolved humanity, and a better world.