It is that look of confidence and love that we owe to God. That intent gaze will save us as we look to our God to take out the stitches of sin. Jesus said that to enter the kingdom of God we must become like little children, looking by faith into the face of Christ. But pagans scorn the need to turn to the God of the Bible. According to Christianity, such dependence on God is the only possible solution.
Pagans turn within, which the Bible declares as the essence of sin and the height of folly.
These two solutions can hardly be more contradictory. When I was a young man of twenty-nine, I was tormented by a deep sense of unworthiness. Though I had grown up in a Christian home, and was in the middle of a Ph.D. in theology, I would wake each morning with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, caused by the horror of my insecurity. One day was different. Unable to function, I realized that I was at the end of my resources.