10:15,16
“Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” What is the key characteristic that Jesus is pointing at here? Most probably it is a child’s utter dependence upon their parents, and so our utter dependence on God. If we think we are inherently important and deserving then we can never enter the kingdom of God. Now this does not mean that we do not do anything. Continuing with the child analogy, our children are dependent upon us, but we want to see them grow and to develop skills and abilities. So it is with us as children of God.
So having corrected His disciples’ thinking, Jesus takes the children in His arms and blesses them. He affirmed the children, stressing their importance.
10:17
We now get more on what the kingdom of heaven is all about. A man runs up to Jesus and falls on his knees. The man had great wealth, and was also a “ruler” (Luke 18:18), so he had good standing in society, yet he still knelt at the feet of Jesus. This demonstrates the effect that Jesus had. He is also a serious man, he wants to know what “must I do to inherit eternal life”.
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