Word for the day by Christian Education Forum
Herry Alex
Christos MTC, PA
the children crying out in the
temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,”
There’s a general perception that
the subject of God is too complex for little children to understand. Is
it perhaps the other way around where God’s message is actually so simple even
a child can understand it? I still remember this one night when we were all
winding down for bed with my daughter. We kept to our usual routine each
night where she would first change into her “paa-jam-moos” and then pick up one
or two of her favorite children’s book for me to read. Once story time was
over, we changed gears to reading her children’s Bible, followed by family
prayer immediately afterwards. Like most nights, Abby started off our
family prayer but something was different this night. She started out with her
usual routine to “Bless mommy and daddy” but as she continued her voice started
to crack and she became very emotional as she poured her heart to Jesus.
I knew at that moment that my little girl, no older than 5, had accepted
Jesus into her life.
As we look closer at today’s
Bible portion, we continue to see more examples of God using the weak things of
the world to shame the wise and the strong (1 Cor 1:27). In Matthew 21, we find
an elite and influential group of people called the chief priests and scribes
who failed to understand the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on a
donkey as prophesized in Zechariah (9:9) or signs that the promised messiah
would come and heal the lame and blind (Isaiah 35:5,6). Lastly, we see
children from the temple crying out Hosanna (save now) son of David which seems
to be the final straw that chief priests and scribes can take.
We learn that out of babes and nursing infants is not
just any praise but perfect praise! To put things into some perspective,
one study has placed the diameter of the observable universe at 93 billion
light years yet scripture tells us that the heavens were measured by the span
of God’s hand (Isa 40). And even the heavens can’t contain God or His
glory (1 King 8:27) but yet the praise of a child is far greater than the
vastness of heaven. When we get caught up with the troubles of this world, we
miss the big picture God has been trying to show us. Life becomes a lot
clearer and our daily walk with Jesus becomes more meaningful when we have
simple faith like a child.
PRAYER
Help us, O LORD, not to be blind like the chief priests and scribes
who failed to see Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Help us instead to have
faith like a child where all we need to know is that Jesus loves us
this we know for the Bible tells us so. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
“Train up a child in the way he should go – but be sure you go that way
yourself.” – Charles Spurgeon