I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if when the Israelites approached the Red Sea there was a kid in Israel that blurted out, "why don't we just cross the lake?" This kid was brushed aside because of the absurdity, but I also could imagine a kid saying, "well maybe God could just make a bridge or something".
It is so easy to brush aside to imaginative power of the living God. What would a life look like that didn't accept limitations, but instead acted according to God's will without being constricted to a tiny box of human thinking. Could God have given us children to remind us to use our imagination in following God? Whether there was a Israeli kid that said these things or not, we do the same with kids today. We brush them aside. I wonder if, by brushing aside the unbound belief of a child, we find ourselves trapped between our captors and an inevitable fate. This lends credence to what Jesus said about not entering the kingdom of heaven without believing like a child.
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