Revealed Unto Babes

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Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain, which it is the pride of utmost age to recover,” says John Ruskin.

“Spiritual childhood is better than natural childhood,” writes Alfred Cookman in the same vein, “for it combines all that is good in a child’s heart with what is valuable in that same heart when matured. The trust may be stronger and more perfect, and purity purer, something much more than the innocence of ignorance.”

Both these quotations on the importance of becoming as little children if we would discover the secret of spiritual fulfillment, are taken from the compilation on humility, Royal Insignia, page 159 The following page contains some stanzas from the poem by Trudy Harvey Tait on the same subject:

The nature of a little child,
I simply could not see
How such a nature ever could
Become a part of me.

The pride of years would never let
My Savior on the Throne,
But crowned me King and kept me where
I reigned, just I alone

This pride, oh, what a horrid thing,
Kept me from bending low,
So through the kingdom’s door, you see,
I simply could not go. . . .

Then, oh the wonder of that day,
I saw what I should do;
I said, “Lord Jesus, I step down
And give the throne to You.”

And so when I by faith obeyed,
A miracle of grace
Within this haughty heart of mine,
That moment did take place. . . .

Now would I, dare I, could I try
Once more the Kingdom’s door?
I longed to, yet it looked so low,
So near unto the floor.

But beckoned by the pierced Hand
Which had removed my sin,
Upon my knees, now weak and small,
A child, I entered in. . . .

And so, diminished as I am,
Stripped of all else but grace,
I live, a trusting little child.
And look upon His face. . . .
—Trudy Tait.
Royal Insignia is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

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