Matthew 18:10 Meaning See That You Don’t Despise One

To despise the little one is to look past the innocence a mind shares with everyone and see a lesser thing standing there. Yet what is small and easily overlooked has never left its Source. Its angel forever beholds the Father's face, which is to say that the truth of every mind stays joined to Heaven no matter how the world below judges it. The part you would dismiss is the part that never fell asleep.

So the caution is really an invitation to look again. Behind the figure the ego calls unworthy stands a mind whose reality is untouched, gazing without interruption on its Creator. To honor the least is to remember that nothing real about a brother can be diminished, however small he seems.

Little ones: the innocence in every mind the ego is quick to belittle, the overlooked truth of a brother Angels: the changeless reality of each mind, the part that never separated and forever looks upon its Source Face of the Father: the memory of God that the awakened mind holds steadily before it

The little one is the incorruptible seed within a person, the child of imagination that beholds and then molds him into the image of what it holds. Its angel forever beholds the Father's face, which means this inner child is always fixed on your own I AM, the source it will bring you back to. To despise it is to discount the quiet imaginal act as too small to matter, when that small assumption is the very thing that reshapes a life.

Whatever image this child keeps before it, the person conforms to in time. The seed is never lost and never idle; it presses steadily toward what it beholds. What a person cherishes inwardly, faint as it seems, becomes the self he grows into.