IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, DECEMBER 28, 2013
GOD HAS PERFECTED PRAISE
And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? Matthew 21:14,15,16 I am amazed by the perfected beauty that streams from my two-year old. If he falls or hurts himself in anyway, he runs to me and says, "Pray for me Mommy. Pray to Jesus for me." He loves to praise dance and will easily shout "Hallelujah!" One day, while we were visiting the University of Pennsylvania's campus, my son saw a statue of a preacher and seemed to quickly identify that this was a man of God. He asked me, "Jesus?" It was George Whitefield, a preacher of the Great Awakening. How amazed I was that this little one, not even two at the time, could identify a man of God. Perhaps it was the book in the preacher's hand and his pose--pointing to the heavens.
I would have loved to have been in the temple when Jesus was there (as recorded in Mathew 21) to behold those little babes crying out "Hosanna to the Son of David." But I know for sure that God's cherished children are still crying out praises to the LORD. Truly, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings God has perfected praise!
