This message serves to remove all doubt about the importance of preparing the younger for Kingdom stewardship, and removes all excuses for our being negligent in this call from God. So often, children are placed on some imaginary back-burner with the presumption that they will add value to the Kingdom when they are older. Interestingly, when Jesus told us how we must enter the Kingdom, he placed a child before us and said, “Become like this one."