TO LOVE LIKE CHRIST IS TO LOVE LIKE A CHILD

Christ! Big, bushy brown beard, yet pure as a child!

I love children very much, so I pay a lot of attention to their behaviour. One striking thing about children is the way they react to being scolded or being spanked by their parents for bad behaviour. The parent causes them pain through the spanking but they keep running back screaming at the top of their voices and even with tears in their eyes trying hard to give the parent a tight HUG. Makes we want to cry sometimes (i'm not ashamed to say that).  If the scolding/spanking is extreme, the child stands a few meters away from the parent crying but still looking at the parent, with a sort of hopeful stare in their eyes which says "can I come back into your arms now please?"
To me that's an element of purity, better yet, the element of Christ in children.
Christ is just like that! He suffered for our sake and we keep doing things to make him suffer all over again, but he's always more than happy to come back into our lives if we'll open the door.
Apologies in advance to my little brother Christopher Onoja for this embarrassment. I remember very vividly, when he was a child and my mom travelled far away to return after weeks, the sight of her photograph hanging in the parlour would bring him to tears for hours. So we always made sure his head was tilted in the opposite direction of her photo whenever he passed the area. So the distance created by her journey was no barrier to feeling the pain of love. What I learnt by watching him at the time was that the love of a child is so far-reaching that distance is not even an issue. That is yet another element of Christ, no matter how much distance you create between yourself and Him, He still wants your love back! 

Lol, no conditions attached to this kinda love!  That's how it's supposed to be isnt it!?!

But what about adults??? Adult love to me is "fake love" [yeah I said it!, and I'll say it again].
When you remain a child at heart, you retain your ability to love truly. Christ's type of love heals all pain and breaks all barriers created by distance. Just be sure you do your part in closing the distance by going back to Him on time because there is a clock, the end time!
PS: If I ever told you I loved you, and I didn't say something to you about Christ/God then ignore my statement, because that love was manufactured in my head and is adulterated. Love is manufactured in Heaven. Today, I'm very proud to say, I still love very FOOLISHLY...like a MUMU....like a child...thank you Jesus :)

This happens to be the way I see things.  The childish approach works for me.  Christ didn't exercise pride in showing us the depth of His love for us.  He took mockery, beatings and persecution on our behalf, and even public DENIAL from those whom he loved and claimed to love Him too.  It hurt, but His point still came across...He loved!!!  For the average adult, one denial, JUST ONE denial is enough to kill love.