If you read Luke 2 from the King James Bible to a 7 year old once a day for a couple of weeks; and if you do that on the heels of reading Oswald Chambers' exhortation to remember Paul's word that we should preach Jesus, and Him crucified, after which you practiced talking about how God came to Earth and wrapped Himself in flesh to live and die for us in this sad and fallen world...
Your 7 year old might stop you one day at the part where Mary swaddles the baby Jesus and lays Him in the manger to remark on how, "...that's just like the way He came here and put on a body...and the dirty manger He got laid in is like the sinful world."
And you might be amazed.
And then you might be reminded how much, and realize why Jesus loves the little children.
And the next time you read the same passage, you might be awed to find yourself seeing the Scripture anew--as through the eyes of a child; and your heart might break as you conjecture what it must have been for Joseph to search and plead for a place to let Mary rest as she labored.
I wonder if the inn keepers were cordial to Joseph? Were they polite? Sympathetic even?
I wonder if it was just a practical matter? There was no room at the inn--that's all. All full up. Too crowded. Settled in. Rejected.
Just like today.
6 comments:
Wow. That's all I can say.
Beautiful.
WOW!
Thank you for sharing!
Settled in. Oh, how I settle in, and hold rigidly to the sides of my chair when the threat of moving comes.
You moved me though, friend. As did Dumpling. I go to read Luke 2...
Thank you.
He speaks to them with words our ears have been closed to with years of all the "stuff" that clutters the simplicity of The Truth.
i love that analogy.
i've always had faith in the amazing minds of our children. we don't listen to them close enough most of the time.
it's cool to see your blog. i'm just surfing the links from last years christmas tour.
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