One day, a scientist discovered a large ant hill in his
kitchen garden.
Propelled by his usual curiosity and interest in
these tiny creatures, he bent down to examine them more closely. But he found it
very difficult. Every time he moved closer, his shadow spread across them and
the little ants fled in terror.
“I stepped back,” the scientist wrote in his diary,
“and sat down on the grass to think out the situation. I had only good will
toward the ants and did not wish to harm a one of them. But how could I make the ants aware of my good will.
My
imagination began to play with the problem.
To these tiny ants, I was
an all-powerful creature “somewhere up there” whose thoughts they could not
guess, whose ways and intentions they could not know.
If only I could communicate. But even that would
not be enough. Even then, I would be a gigantic being to the ants, and they
would never believe that I understood their problems – the minute organization
of the hill, their struggles for good, and their battles with other
ants.
Only one thing could give them complete confidence. That is, if by some
alchemy, I could for a time…become an ant…”
Do you doubt
a loving Father? Who was Jesus? Come to give us complete confidence. By divine
and compassionate heavenly alchemy become man and dwell among us.
He left a
throne room where He was high and lifted up and went to a place where he would
eventually suffer and die upon a cross.
He did not just peer down
and shout through the pearly gates, “I feel your
pain.”
No…He came down to this
little oblate spheroid called earth and healed the sick and the poor and the
hurting.
He
did this because He was part of an eternal plan. He did this so that we could be
reminded that He our God does cares and that He truly understands.
He did this
that we would know that God loves us.
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"Behold
what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God." (1 John 3:1)
We have the title…it is a gift and with such a
title comes He who gave it to us.
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A
New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS began on this blog
“Wyrick’s Writings”
and will continue until finished.
Then a new
Series on PRAYER will begin..
To view an abundance
of unusual stories by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL
VITAMINS
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