Wy wife came back from a night of women's ministry at the church we attend. During her time of prayer that night, she felt like the Lord spoke into her life, "You're a WHO."
When she told me this during the course of our conversation that night, I laughed at her. Not demeaning what God said to her, but chuckling at the way that God does choose to speak to us.
Please keep in mind that we pastor children, from ages 0-6th grade. So to be told that you're a WHO is hysterical in light of Dr. Suess' classic "Horton Hears a Who" about which a motion picture was recently released.
In this movie Horton begins to hear voices. He isn't sure where they are coming from at first but he eventually discovers that they are coming from "somewhere up there." Curious about the source of the voice, Horton begins to inquire and explore its origin. What he ultimately discovers is a world that he never knew existed.
A fair amount of time passed after my wife's experience, and I soon forgot all about that night. But as I was sitting in my office today, for some unexplicable reason, the words came back to me: "You're a WHO." I stopped my work for a few moments, and I was just sitting there thinking about those three simple words. It was then that I felt God provide an explanation that really connected with me.
I am a WHO. My wife and I are WHOS. Our job is to pastor children; we begin the process for them of exploring spiritual truth. It's a world of which they know very little, and a world that they might not otherwise know exists. So we teach them about it and we exemplify it for them. When society seems to tell us that we are making them more narrow-minded, we can know that we are actually making them open-minded, because finding God at an early age is the best kind of freedom anyone can hope to have.
At some point we all actually need to be a WHO to someone. We need to open someone's eyes to the great love that God has for them. But who is your Horton? It's definitely a question that begs an answer (and an action plan)!
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About Me
- Ben Harper
- Ben has been married since 2004 and has two beautiful kids - and about to have a third. He works as a Children's Pastor in Hendersonville, Tennessee.