You are now, each one of you, and you have always been since you were baptized, one of these "little ones" who believe. Since the name of Christ was laid on you, and you were marked with his cross, he has claimed you as one of his "little ones" of which the text speaks, "these little ones who believe in me." At the time Jesus said these words there were only "little ones" for Jesus had not been around long enough to have big ones, people who had been believers in him for a lifetime, or for half a lifetime. In any case, to the eyes of God, and to the eyes of the Son of God, all of us mortals must seem to be little, to be "little ones."

The point of all this is that even as one of Christ's little ones you are big enough to know the facts of life. There are "stumbling blocks" which can be bi…