{"id":40717,"date":"2026-06-24T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40717"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:28:31","slug":"26-0625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0625\/","title":{"rendered":"A Childlike Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Jesus invites us to approach God the way a child approaches his or her daddy. And how do children approach their daddies?\u00a0When a five-year-old spots his father in the parking lot, how does he react? \u201cYippee!\u201d was screamed by a red-headed boy wearing a Batman backpack. \u201cPop! Over here! Push me!\u201d yelled by a boy wearing a Boston Red Sox cap who scooted straight to the swings.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I didn\u2019t hear: \u201cFather, it is most gracious of thee to drive thy car to my place of education. Please know of my deep gratitude for your benevolence. For thou art splendid in thy attentive care and diligent in thy dedication.\u201d<\/p>\n

I heard kids who were happy to see their dads and eager to speak to him. God invites us to approach him in the same manner. What a relief!<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0Read more\u00a0Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Jesus invites us to approach God the way a child approaches his or her daddy. And how do children approach their daddies?\u00a0When a five-year-old spots his father in the parking lot, how does he react? \u201cYippee!\u201d was screamed by a red-headed boy wearing a Batman backpack. \u201cPop! Over here! Push me!\u201d yelled by a boy wearing a Boston Red Sox cap who scooted straight to the swings.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I didn\u2019t hear: \u201cFather, it is most gracious of thee to drive thy car to my place of education. Please know of my deep gratitude for your benevolence. For thou art splendid in thy attentive care and diligent in thy dedication.\u201d<\/p>\n

I heard kids who were happy to see their dads and eager to speak to him. God invites us to approach him in the same manner. What a relief!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40720,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40717\/revisions\/40720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}