Jesus said, “Let the children come to Me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.” (Matthew 19:14 NLT)
In praise, the creature happily acknowledges that everything good and true and beautiful in the universe comes from the Creator. The affirmation works on us as well as on God, by reminding us of our proper position before God. To develop praise, I have found, it helps to hang around children. They have no problem bursting out in spontaneous praise when something impresses them, perhaps because they have no pretension to rise above their assigned state -- as children.
-- Philip Yancey in “The Bible Jesus Read”
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