This is my take on something I read in C.S. Lewis's God in the Dock: ?When we come into the presence of God, we will find, whether we wish it or not, that all those things which seemed to make us so different from all the men of other times, or even from our earlier self, have fallen away. We are back where we always were, where every man always is. No possible complexity that we can give to our picture of the universe can hide us from God. There is no city, no wilderness, and no Garden of Eden thick enough to provide cover. In the twinkling of an eye, and in any place, all that seems to divide us from God can vanish, leaving us naked and exposed before Him, like the first man, Adam—the only man—just as if nothing but He and I existed. And since the Judgement Day cannot be avoided for long, and since it means either bliss or horror, the business of life is to learn to like it. That is the first and greatest commandment."
"Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3
"Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 19:14
Jesus did not mean we should become childish in our ways, but rather to be as innocent as little children in our faith in Him, and in acceptance of the reality of the world we must all face.
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."
The world we live in has always been filled with pitfalls, and the modern world sometimes seems to be one big pit, of Hell itself, threatening our very existence. Christ expects us first, to do no harm, but within it all, retain an awareness of evil and a readiness to strike it down.
