Jesus and the Great Wall of China

Dec 21, 2009

Jesus and the Great Wall of China

This morning I was thinking about how people develop their relationships with Jesus, and I got this great word picture and wanted to share it before it slipped away from me. It stemmed from my tenet that the more I know about Him, the less I know.

Many people want to see the Great Wall of China, so they take a plane and get on a tour bus. When they get off the bus and walk over to the Wall, they see miles and miles of the Wall. They realize the bus will never be able to take them over those mountains and through those valleys, so the only way they will ever be able to see and experience the Wall is to walk those miles.

So too it is with Jesus. Many people rely upon the bus (the church) to get them to Jesus, but once they see the miles they will have to walk to experience Jesus, they decide not to risk it and sit safely in the bus waiting for a safe return to the hotel (the world). Only the ones who trust Him to walk with Him, because HE will not cause our feet to stumble and His word is a light to our paths, get to experience Him in ways that those who sat in the bus will never understand.

Hope your CHRISTmas is wonder-filled, just as HE is wonder-filled!!

--V.