Yesterday, Jan and I watched an episode of season 5 of The Chosen. In one scene, Jesus and His disciples were celebrating the Passover. At one point, Jan and I got emotional when we heard a song they sang.

They were singing what is called the “Dayenu,” a song traditionally sung during the Passover seder that recounts the story of the Israelites’ escape from Egypt. The song contains stanzas listing the kindness of God during and after their physical exodus. They concluded each stanza with the word “Dayenu,” meaning “It would have been enough.”

When the words of the Dayenu were uttered, declaring, “It would have been enough,” I was taken back to my childhood. As an 8-year-old boy, I had recently been saved, and my faith was still pure and innocent, focused solely on Jesus. My young faith was not cluttered by my attempts to hold onto a particular camp of interpretation within the Church or my attempts to figure out how to run the world. My faith was simple and pure, a personal form of Dayenu that kept me focused on Jesus and nothing more.

After the disciples asked Jesus who was the greatest in His Kingdom, the Lord gave a distinct answer that went contrary to the disciples’ thinking.

“Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them. Then he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So, anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 18: 1-4).

The Lord is returning some of us to a childlike expression of our faith where we do not allow Jesus to become an adhesive to attach our various opinions about Him or how to navigate this life. Perhaps that’s what real maturity looks like, not the complicated version of what we’ve been told to believe. If we have Jesus, He is always enough, no matter what comes our way.