All who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons and daughters. 15 You didn’t receive a spirit of slavery to lead you back again into fear, but you received a Spirit that shows you are adopted as his children. With this Spirit, we cry, “ Abba, Father. ” 16 The same Spirit agrees with our spirit, that we are God’s children. 17 But if we are children, we are also heirs. We are God’s heirs and fellow heirs with Christ, if we really suffer with him so that we can also be glorified with him.
The author introduces young readers ages 4-8 to the friends of Jesus in a clever repeated rhyming style. Children will hear about shepherds and disciples, people who needed help and the women who met Jesus when he rose from the dead. God sent Jesus to be a friend to them and to us.