April 17: By now relatives and friends have heard of Ian’s condition and hundreds if not thousands are praying for him from Alaska to Arizona and California to Florida.
Today I read Matt 21:9-16 about the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem:
9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:
"Hosanna to the Son of David!' Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!' Hosanna in the highest!"
10 And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, "Who is this?"
11 So the multitudes said, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee."
12 Jesus Cleanses the Temple
(Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48; John 2:13-22)
Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.'"
14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant 16 and said to Him, "Do You hear what these are saying?"
And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read,
'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise'?"
Ian is a nursing infant lying helpless and silent in a hospital crib. It occurs to me those hundreds of praying people, hearing of God’s answer to their prayers, is how God is praised by this nursing infant who cannot speak.
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