Listen

Tuesday October 9th, Hebrews 1:  ¹In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, ²but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son,  When God speaks through his son, God’s voice come through in the work and words of love and acceptance.  All too often we seek out own way, which is usually the way of rejection and judgment, by picking a Biblical quote from here and a quote from there to justify our personal prejudice?  But in Jesus’ world view, even when he speaks of divorce it is to point out that it is all due to the hardness of our hearts and comes with a calling to recognize the personhood of both men and women.  We have examples of God’s love that takes small children, not the cherub faces depicted in most church art, but small, smelly, dirty, rejected and powerless children, and tells us to become like one of these.  The word of God, the creator of all, calls us to identify with these small, expendable, rejected and powerless ones.  This word of God reminds us that it is when we identify with these powerless that we will finally start to “get” the kingdom of God.  God’s word through Jesus reminds us that the Kingdom is not about power, greatness, CEO salaries or golden parachutes, it is about love, acceptance and caring for the least, lost and lonely, those most often rejected by society.  In these last days we have the words and examples of Jesus.  God’s word reminds us on the mountain of transfiguration, to “Listen to Him!!!!”