Recently I was asked to write a post for the school I work for.
I am pleased to share that post with you today!
I am pleased to share that post with you today!
Joseph and Benjamin are hard at work
on a new construction project. It’s the biggest contract their company has ever
had, and they are proud to be working on an impressive, top-of-the-line
skyscraper.
“When we’re finished,” touts Joseph,
“Our company will be the most famous in the area. We’ll never have to move far
away for another job!”
“What?” says Benjamin, “Wo ting bu
dong. Ni shuo shenme?”
“You está diciendo palabras locos!” replies a worried Joseph.
Shortly
afterwards, they abandon their skyscraper.
******
Fast forward
several thousand years. Joseph’s and Benjamin’s
great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren gather in Jerusalem to
worship the God of Israel. It’s early in the morning, and street vendors are
just opening their fruit stands and meat carts to welcome the influx of
tourists here for the festival. Suddenly, a local man stands on a nearby
rooftop and begins preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
“Ting de dong!”
exclaims Benji.
“Yo comprendo!”
shouts Joe.
“He’s right!
Jesus truly is the way to God!” others chime.
******
Pentecost is a
glorious anti-Babel. Where Babel shows the devastating discipline of a God who
deserves obedience, Pentecost reveals Divine wisdom that leaps language
barriers in a single bound. Occasionally even now, God gives this supernatural
understanding. But most often, he trains us through the slow, arduous process
of climbing the language barrier with nothing but a rope and the guidance of
those who’ve climbed before.
I am absolutely
blessed to help our students scale this wall. I hope that once they do, they
will travel to Judea, Samaria, and even the ends of the earth.
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