We block the gift, and then we make the giver look ignorant. We're not so good at receiving. We get a new building in town or on campus and the first thing some folks do is to criticize the donor. I think we've lost what we had when we were babies. Once upon a time we knew how to receive something uncritically and then live off it.
Infants are like wide receivers in football.
I haven't had a ball all quarter. It never happens, because a good wide receiver lives off those passes. He'll take all he can get. Maybe Jesus is saying that we ought to accept the kingdom of God like a good wide receiver. Either way, it's coming at us.