The apostle Paul grasped the full meaning of Jesus’ teaching on becoming like a little child. Serving as a coatrack during the stoning of Stephen and as a ringleader in the slaughter of Christians, Paul might well have become pathological had he dwelt on his pre-Christian past. But he writes, “I can only say that forgetting all that lies behind me, and straining forward to what lies in front” (Philippians 3:13).
