Humble Yourself Like a Child
Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:3-4
The disciples asked who was greatest in the kingdom. Jesus answered by standing a child in the middle of the argument, and taught elsewhere that all who humble themselves will be exalted.
Unless you change and become like children is entry language, not extra credit. A child in that world had no status, no leverage, no resume, only receptivity and trust. The kingdom cannot be achieved into, negotiated into, or earned into. It can only be received.
Practice one act of deliberate lowering this week: ask a question that reveals you do not know, let someone else take the credit, take the low seat on purpose. Rank is heavy. Set it down.