I liked it best having my children sit on my lap when they were small. Since they're grown  - not so much. God is the same way. There's a delight a parent gets when their children are small that he can't enjoy any other time. Yes  - adult children give us other delights but I'm just trying to say  - never get so grown up that you can't crawl up on God's lap and giggle with delight as He bounces you on His knee. " AND JESUS CALLED A LITTLE CHILD TO HIM".

A little child might sit on Jesus' lap, and not know who he really was, but just wanted Him for His lap! For his company! For his gentle hands and loving eyes. They are comfortable with him  - they feel safe in his arms  - and this is how He wants us to approach him  - with total trust that whatever he does with us, we'll be safe for it will always be for our good. He wants us to want him for his company,  not for what he can give us or do for us. Amen.

"ALLOW LITTLE CHILDREN,  AND FORBID THEM NOT, TO COME TO ME, FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN "

"AND HE SAID, I TELL YOU THE TRUTH,  UNLESS YOU CHANGE AND BECOME LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN,  YOU WILL NEVER ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN"

In the kingdom of God, we grow more and more childlike   - we adults become children,  we get smaller and smaller,  not bigger,  in his kingdom.. ..not in understand,  our understanding matures, but in heart....in spirit.