Day 7 - Sabbath - Saturday - Connect the Testaments: A 365-Daiy Devotional with Bible Reading Plan - Logos
January 15: I Understand How They Felt Genesis 26; Matthew 19:1–20:16 ; Ecclesiastes 6:1–4 “Allow the children, and do not forbid them to come to me, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 19:14). This is the type of Jesus I want to know. It’s easy for me to think of Jesus as a man I see in film or in Renaissance paintings—to make Him somehow distant in the process—but this Jesus is very compassionate and close. This Jesus takes the lowest members in society, outside of slaves, and promotes them to the ultimate status of equality: members of the kingdom of heaven, being God’s kingdom. The disciples didn’t understand this yet; instead, they rebuked the people bringing their children to Jesus (Matt 19:14). The people bringing their children simply wanted Jesus to lay His healing hands on them and pray for them; the disciples saw a threat to Jesus’ image. The image Jesus wanted to portray was the opposite. It seems more often than not that I find myself worrying abou...