Become as little children

Matthew 18:3 reads, “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

To return to live with our Heavenly Father again, we must be as little children. We need to be humble and meek, as little children are. We must “be of good cheer” (D&C 78:18) We must allow ourselves to be led by the Spirit through this life, for “ye cannot bear all things.” (D&C 78”:18) He will lead and guide us through our trials, if we will turn to Him and remember Him. In a talk by Elder D. Todd Christofferson, titled, “That They May Be One in Us,” he states that “As we endeavor day by day and week by week to follow the path of Christ, our spirit asserts its preeminence, the battle within subsides, and temptations cease to trouble.” Our temptations will be few, as we strive to follow the path of Jesus Christ. In Mosiah 3:19, we read that we can be as little children as we strive to be, “submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.”