{"id":1607,"date":"2011-11-16T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2011-11-16T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:43:25","slug":"let-the-children-come-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"Let the Children Come to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAnd they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.\u00a0But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, &#8220;Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.\u00a0Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.&#8221;\u00a0And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.\u201d \u2013 Mark 10:13-16 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>When we seek the Kingdom of Heaven, it\u2019s important to remember that we need to do so with the heart and spirit of a child; teachable, humble, without pride or arrogance, and open to the guidance of our Creator.\u00a0 As little children look to their earthly parents for comfort, security and love, so must we look to our Heavenly Father in the same manner.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.\u00a0But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, &#8220;Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.\u00a0Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[1808,256,132,2133,966,1628,21,916,2132,269,1632,2131,186],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-arrogance","tag-blessed","tag-children","tag-creator","tag-god","tag-gospel-of-mark","tag-guidance","tag-heavenly-father","tag-humility","tag-jesus","tag-kingdom-of-god","tag-kingdom-of-heaven","tag-pride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-pV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}