The Naivete of Faith

Where is faith, when naivete is shunned?

This has been my struggle recently, to understand how can I have faith when my perspectives seem too "informed" or "thought-out" or "calculated" . . . all the things that nullify the need for faith to begin with.

I can remember days of naivete. Days, that honestly I now long for, because they held a belief that God loved my faith, my risk-taking, my willingness to not have it all figured out. God loved my being willing to throw myself on him in pure naive trust. I compare that with now, and I envision God scrutinizing me because I don't have the most balanced, sensitive, well thought perspectives for ministry activities and plans and strategies. Verses now have to be understood in their proper context, and I can't "claim a verse" that isn't saying exactly what it was intending to say. Back in the day, my faith was inspired by verses that were lifted from their context. Yet they spoke something to me, that my soul was desperate to hear . . . things about God loving me and his sovereignty and his desire to bless me and show his goodnesss to me and his desire to use me to fulfill his purposes in this world. That when I joined up with God in what he was doing, that God was pleased.

In honesty, I wonder if I've now become too worldly, too fleshly, too logical, too knowledgeable and analytical to be able to place my faith in something that in a "faith moment" might seem ridiculous according to the criteria described above.

Isn't naivete connected with faith. Unless you come to me like a child you won't inherit the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:3 
And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

I perceive such a far cry from that in the wisdom of our Christian culture. It's about doing your best to not offend, to work from within a system that is corrupt and failing, to not cause waves.

In my naivete, much of my faith used to carry battle imagery. It wasn't always a battle that I understood properly (a battle with the forces of evil in the heavenly realms) but it was a battle that inspired faith and trust in God.

Which is better naivete or "humanly wisdom" that looks down on or shuns the naivete of the young or the zealous?