“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:3 (New American Standard Bible)
Wisdom truly can come from the mouths of children. One evening when my daughter and I took my wife to the airport to catch a flight I heard such wisdom for myself. As my daughter and my three-year-old grandson, Jaren, stood at the window watching my wife’s plane being rolled back from the terminal a little girl next to us had her forehead pressed against the glass. She had tears in her eyes. Obviously someone she loved was moving away with that airplane and she didn’t know whether or not they would ever return to her. As the plane moved back she looked again to her mom who was standing next to her. She gave her a comforting hug and said, “It’s alright, honey.” Jaren was standing next to her. He looked over to her and seeing her tears touched her arm. “It’s OK,’ he said, “the airplane will come back.”
It must have been that way when Jesus was taken up from His disciples into the clouds to be at the right hand of His Father. Before He went away He promised He would return for us. If I am honest with you I have to say I have wondered at times if He really is coming back or did He leave and that’s it? My comfort is set in my faith in His word and the many signs he told us would be happening just before He comes home.
He has not only confirmed my reservation but the reservations of perhaps billions of believers past and present. My faith in Him is my boarding pass and I am convinced He will very soon take me and every other believer to clear, uncrowded and friendlier skies. I got a flying lesson from a two-year-old concerning this very thing. “It’s OK; the airplane will come back.” Jesus said if He went away He would return to us. The parallel is so striking isn’t it? Out of the mouths of children God has perfected wisdom and praise.
Ken
www.devotionstoday.blogspot.com
It must have been that way when Jesus was taken up from His disciples into the clouds to be at the right hand of His Father. Before He went away He promised He would return for us. If I am honest with you I have to say I have wondered at times if He really is coming back or did He leave and that’s it? My comfort is set in my faith in His word and the many signs he told us would be happening just before He comes home.
He has not only confirmed my reservation but the reservations of perhaps billions of believers past and present. My faith in Him is my boarding pass and I am convinced He will very soon take me and every other believer to clear, uncrowded and friendlier skies. I got a flying lesson from a two-year-old concerning this very thing. “It’s OK; the airplane will come back.” Jesus said if He went away He would return to us. The parallel is so striking isn’t it? Out of the mouths of children God has perfected wisdom and praise.
Ken
www.devotionstoday.blogspot.com
