Bibledoorajar: Wanting to Make Him Known

     I just got in from Dallas. We had taken the kids who wanted to go from our church to Leadership Training for Christ. There were thousands gathered there. The theme was to Make Him Known and the participants read scriptures, gave speeches, did drama and puppet shows, art and photography and posters. Others led singing or participated in chorales. Some even read Christian poetry. It was all designed to Make Him Known. It made me think of previous blog entries. God went to great lengths to train the Israelites to worship Him and to recognize what the High Priest was accomplishing for them within the Holy of Holies. One wonders how many of them were so moved that they wanted to make Him known. God had hoped they would make Him known to each other and to strangers.
     The writer of Hebrews was anxious for the Christians he was writing to. They were not so filled with Him that they a)knew how to make Him known, and, b)wanted to. He had many deep things he wanted to say to them about the High Priest but they had become dull of hearing and were not interested in learning new depths in Christ. At a time when they should have been prepared to make Him known, they were not. They, themselves, had need to be taught even the "basics" again!
     I was happy to take children who were willing to share with others what they had been fed. It was a great delight. It was also a delight to be among the many adults who had fed them and participated with them in bringing their thoughts to the rest of us. On Sunday morning, tired, but very anxious to share, over 3000 of us gathered in a ballroom to make it known to Him that we knew Him and loved Him. It was a glorious worship. As we sang "ring it out, merrily ring" I was moved to think: " Lord may this please You tremendously." To ring it out merrily. What could be better than that?