God's establishment of marriage and the command to multiply (Genesis 1:26; 2:24; Psalm 121), enabling the attainment of a quiver of children, leads us to discover one of God's principal patterns, the family relationship, allowing brotherhood and sisterhood to learn agape love, and to teach the lesson of God's parental love toward His children. Jesus' disciples learned that to be first or greatest in God's Kingdom, one had to assume the humble and innocent attitude of a child. Positive traits of children we should emulate are: 1.) humility and genuineness, the antithesis of hypocrisy, 2.) fully dependent upon parents, 3.) curiosity and hunger for knowledge, 4.) continually loving and seeking Mom and Dad, and 5.) enjoying spending time with parents, desiring to grow up just like them. Our physical family provides a type of what we aspire to become as children of God (John 17:21-22; 1 John 3:1) seeing Him as He is, realizing that God the Father loves us as much as He loves Jesus Christ, our Elder Brother and Savior.