Christ’s example: a child
Sep 20, 2009 Five Non-Negotiable Issues
Gospel
Mk 9:30-37Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee,
but he did not wish anyone to know about it.
He was teaching his disciples and telling them,
“The Son of Man is to be handed over to men
and they will kill him,
and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.”
But they did not understand the saying,
and they were afraid to question him.They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house,
he began to ask them,
“What were you arguing about on the way?”
But they remained silent.
They had been discussing among themselves on the way
who was the greatest.
Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them,
“If anyone wishes to be first,
he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.”
Taking a child, he placed it in the their midst,
and putting his arms around it, he said to them,
“Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me;
and whoever receives me,
receives not me but the One who sent me.”
Today’s gospel provides two relevant lessons for Americans (and people of the world). First of all, Christ warns the apostles that anyone who acts selfishly and worries about their own interests are in grave danger. This is especially fitting when looking at the candidates and the issues a person supports with their time and fortune.
The second lesson in resides in the example he uses — a child. Considering God was omniscient, this is a very telling example for all of the ages to come: that there is nothing more precious in this world than a child, even the lowest and most unworthy of children (as is the case in this example). Yet, Christ puts the child on the pedestal and says you cannot receive him without receiving the child.
Many Christian-Americans continue to vote according to their wants and needs, and not the needs of the least among us. They have continued to put issues like education, taxes, and government services ahead of the needs of the unborn. They have continued to discount the millions of children we mercilessly kill every year while propping up the need for free markets and civil liberty. The first freedom we are entitled to in this world, though, is Freedom. People should heed the words of an ultimate civil libertarian, Ron Paul:
Contrast that with a guy who many Ron Paul supporters also support, but whose priorities are truly mis-guided, and you don’t have a civil libertarian at all. Be very prayerful and thoughtful before you give any kind of support to a man like Peter Schiff. Supporting a man with the thoughts to come (below) is denying the very child that Christ is begging you to receive (and thus, the Father):
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