Childlike Reception of the Kingdom

Neville's Inner Vision

In Mark 10:13-16 I read a scene of consciousness, not merely a historical event. The disciples’ rebuke reveals a habit of tightening, a belief that mercy must be earned. Jesus answers from the within: touch, blessing, and a welcoming state that the kingdom belongs to those who approach as a child. To receive the kingdom as a little child is not childishness but a readiness to trust, to be taught by wonder, and to admit what cannot be proven by ego. I am invited to abandon strategies and to assume that the I AM is already here, that this very awareness is the kingdom in operation. When I adopt a childlike stance, I release control and let grace enter through receptivity; I stop looking for signs and begin to feel the presence of God as my own breathing, my own beat. The Imago Dei becomes a living perception, not a distant doctrine. The scene thus becomes a blueprint: the interior state of blessing precedes any external change. If I revise my sense of self to hold the kingdom as now, the outer scene aligns with this inner truth, and mercy flows without effort.