Looking For A Caption

Maria Elena of Love in Action Christian Outreach in the Philippines placed this photo on her Facebook page September 25 with a comment about being unable to find a caption.  Who could?  I wrote that it would take a thousand words, but I was wrong. I think this covers it:

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. [Matthew 19:14 KJV]

I’ve found that really important things that God wants us to know, He repeats them in the Bible:

But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. [Mark 10:14-15 KJV]

And, if we don’t get the first couple of times, there’s more:

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. [Luke 18:16 KJV]

Maybe that wasn’t enough:

And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. [Mark 9:36-37 KJV]

There are more. Many more. Go ahead, search for them. The one I really like is where Jesus is talking to Nicodemus, much older than any child, explaining what Nicodemus should already have known, yet did not understand:

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God:

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? [John 3:9-10 KJV]

We must enter His kingdom with the faith a child has in parents. Unfortunately, many parents are such bad examples that faith in them dies and the growing child sees nothing to hold to.

We are not promised good parents here on earth, but we can choose to find that good Father. He’s the only who seeks us and provides the most wonderful, eternal answer:

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. [John 3:14-17 KJV]