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Cries from Deep Within
You can see Jesus taking it all in, listening to story after story.
The disciples can’t get it out fast enough, relating what happened on their missionary journey: the healings in Jesus’ Name, driving Satan from people’s lives.
The joy in Jesus’ heart was building so fast and so much that His heart burst into prayer.
“Thank you, Father, that these little ones, these children know you as I know you. You are becoming their Father, too”.
The word Jesus used was not children, but “napios.”
It’s a term that describes a ‘babe in its mother’s arms”.
Sure, they were grown men in the world, but they were babes in the Kingdom of Heaven.
It has nothing to do with maturity or lack of maturity.
It is a disposition of heart that frees up our thoughts and desires to surrender to Jesus.
Think of the infant crying out when it’s hungry.
It can’t rationalize the pain in their stomach.
It can only cry out from deep within, “Take away the pain.”
St. Paul uses that term when he says the Holy Spirit groans in us in ways we cannot express in words.
It’s an alarming sound deep in our hearts that reaches our Father’s ears in heaven.
Instinctively, it knows it will get a response.
It’s the moment Jesus reveals to us His Father in the love of the Holy Spirit.
We can know the Father of Jesus in our hearts.
Just as the infant instinctively knows the food is coming, even when such an event is beyond its comprehension.
We can hear the word of Jesus so clearly.
Gospel Challenge!
And it doesn’t happen one time only.
It’s this “cry” of the Holy Spirit deep within us whenever we are so helpless, so poor in spirit that the Father can’t help pouring out in our laps the treasures of heaven in abundance.
Do you need to cry from deep within?
Love Your Neighbor!
Father Rick Pilger, IC
pastor@bscchurch.com
