Friday, February 01, 2008

I was thinking about Horton Hears a Who recently. You know the Dr. Seuss story; the elephant hears someone on a speck of dust but no one else does. So the elephant tries to save the people, but everyone else thinks he is crazy. They try to get rid of the speck of dust, to get rid of Horton, they ridicule and malign the elephant for doing what is right. I was thinking about this in a Christian perspective. Jesus tried to save the world and everyone thought he was nuts. He was ridiculed and maligned, and eventually gotten rid of. Now it is the Christians' turn to convince the world that they need saved, a little backward from Horton but still some parallels. Sometimes, though, when I look at all of the ways the world needs saving I feel like Horton looking at that field of pink flowers---where in the world do you start? People need the Lord.

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