Jesus's gift to mankind was (or rather, included) to make life primarily a thing of insight, commitment, and hope - rather than being about material achievement or personal reform.
Life is about what we most value and most want; rather than that to which we can personally attain.
The Christian life* can be pursued just as much among children as adults; among the foolish as the sensible; among the dumb as the intelligent; among the sick as the healthy; among the insane as the sane; among unfree slaves as among powerful rulers...
Indeed, there are potential advantages (potential advantages, note) in being a child, a fool, dumb, an invalid, crazy and captive -- in the sense that we may then be more likely to recognize that ultimately we are not victims of circumstance, but masters of our fate.
*i.e. The choice to follow Jesus to resurrected eternal life in Heaven.
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