The Periphery
Read:
Luke 2:8-20
The
Periphery –
That’s where the Inn at Bethlehem really stands.
Rather, that’s where the Innkeeper stands:
We find him never in the Bible, but
always in our pageants.
It’s there, with him, that we can stay and watch.
Not quite taking part, but unable to leave such a scene – such a tale.
We, like the Innkeeper, watch and wonder:
That’s where the Inn at Bethlehem really stands.
Rather, that’s where the Innkeeper stands:
We find him never in the Bible, but
always in our pageants.
It’s there, with him, that we can stay and watch.
Not quite taking part, but unable to leave such a scene – such a tale.
We, like the Innkeeper, watch and wonder:
Who
has come to stay with us? How are we to greet Him?
The
One who made us now joins us:
He lives with us to die for us to live in us that we might live.
He lives with us to die for us to live in us that we might live.
That
visitor, that Child, that Savior, that King
Calls
us away from the periphery.
Calls us to Himself.
Calls us to be loved, to live, to love.
Calls us to Himself.
Calls us to be loved, to live, to love.
Charlie
van Becelaere
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