{"id":1186,"date":"2024-08-21T22:41:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2024-08-21T22:41:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:41:30","slug":"be-like-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBe Like A Child\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTherefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven\u201d. Matthew 18:4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louise and I witnessed something special the other night. We were at a restaurant that had live music. As most of you know, Louise and I love to dance and are always encouraging other couples to join us on the dance floor. The woman usually says, she wished her husband danced or the husband says he doesn\u2019t dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this particular night it was children, ages 4 to 10 who were dragging their moms and dads out on the dance floor. Parents were on the dance floor with 1, 2 or even 3 children. How the parents looked and danced didn\u2019t seem to matter. All their inhibitions were erased as they proceeded to dance like little children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God is asking us to leave our PRIDE behind in order to be like a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What stops me from being like a child? Is my image more important than the image of God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cTherefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven\u201d. Matthew 18:4 Applying God\u2019s Word Louise and I witnessed something special the other night. We were at a restaurant that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}