I\u2019ve gotten to dance with kids in Niger and twirl kids in Thailand.<\/strong> I\u2019ve gotten to play, and play with abandon, in Rwanda <\/strong>and Mexico <\/strong>and Uganda <\/strong>and Peru <\/strong>and Zambia<\/strong>. Ethiopia, too.<\/strong> Lots of playing with kids and balloons there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I could go on, but you get the point. I\u2019m so thankful for the memories of giggling kids. But one thing was pretty consistent: In all these places, I noticed grown men don\u2019t play with kids.<\/strong> It\u2019s just not something they typically do in traditional cultures. It\u2019s weird to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n All this to say: I\u2019m sure Jesus\u2019 culture was that way.<\/strong> So I love imagining him playing with kids, and playing all-out, laughing and twirling the kids and enjoying them. His disciples would be scandalized. But he just keeps doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus said if you\u2019ve seen him, you\u2019ve seen the Father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine that. This is God? This is not normal. Zeus does not play with little kids. Thor does not play with little kids. Allah does not play with little kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, and said, \u201cTruly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.<\/p>\nMatthew 18:2-5<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Brant Hansen<\/a> The God of the Bible? He\u2019s all in. He defends the little ones. He even tells us, in Matthew 18:2-5, that if we want to enter His kingdom, we need to be like them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[53,12,14],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual-growth","tag-brant-hansen","tag-encouragement","tag-inspiration"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 19:17:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star991\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/star933.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Brant-dancing-with-a-child.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nJesus Said Let the Children Come to Me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
They may have been embarrassed. They wanted to take the kids away. No self-respecting, full-grown man, a rabbi no less, would be so undignified.
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The God of the Bible<\/strong>? He\u2019s all in. He defends the little ones.<\/a> He even tells us, in Matthew 18:2-5,<\/strong> that if we want to enter His kingdom, we need to be like them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
I can love a God like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morning Show Host, STAR 99.1<\/p>\n
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