Thursday, May 26,
2016
Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them. Then he said, “I tell
you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children,
you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So anyone who becomes as
humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. “And anyone who welcomes a little child like
this on my behalf is welcoming me. But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts
in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone
tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. Matthew 18:2-6(NLT)
Picket Fences was a popular TV show. One year its Christmas show had a young girl
in a coma due to an auto accident. The
girl was pregnant, but her doctor, who is also the female lead in the show,
said it was impossible because she was a virgin. The doctor’s husband is the male lead, and
the town’s sheriff.
The possibility of a new virgin
birth of course turned the whole show towards Jesus; was he really the Son of
God?
In discussing this whole scenario
with his little son, the sheriff wanted to affirm that Santa Claus was real, so
as to keep the little boy’s hope alive, but yet keep in perspective the reality
that a virgin birth was a medical impossibility. So he gave his son certain “facts” about the all
this in a father-son sit-down.
At the end of their conversation,
the little boy recapped for his sheriff Dad:
Let me see if I have this right – Santa Claus is coming, but God isn’t! With that the boy left the room to his mother
and father, and the sheriff and the doctor had their own conversation about
whether God was coming again.
As the tag line of the show, the
sheriff looked off in the distance and said: You know, it’s a lot safer having God off in
the distance than to have him right up close.
Well, isn’t that the rub?
For You Today
Before you know it, that question
will invade your day – is it in the category of impossible for God
to be right up close?
You chew on that as you hit
the Rocky Road today…have a blessed day!
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[1] Title Image: By Posseidon, via Wikimedia
Commons and Giotto [Public domain], via Wikimedia
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