Denny answers:
Show kids who are different the love of Jesus.
All kids are different, just like adults. Kids may be from a different country than you, have a different skin color, be bigger or smaller. They may speak a different language than you. They may have a mental or physical challenge that means they aren't as smart as you. Or, they may walk and look differently.
When God makes little kids, He makes them just the way He wants them to be. So, if God makes someone different than you, He must have a special plan for them. How they look or act is part of that plan. God wants us to be respectful of kids who seem different and to treat them as we want to be treated, even if other kids are mean to them. Instead of ignoring them, spend time playing with them. Jesus spent lots of time with different people, and He was never embarrassed to be with them or to help them.
Bible Truth
- "You made my whole being; you formed me in my mother's body. I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well. You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother's body. When I was put together there, you saw my body as it was formed. All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old" (Psalm 139:13-16, NCV).
- "As [Jesus] went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' 'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, 'but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life'" (John 9:1-3).
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