Tonight at church George Guthrie gave a presentation about his time in Israel. Jadon was fascinated that someone he knows got to walk and teach in the same places Jesus did. On the way home, he was asking me about when the temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom. He asked me why that was such a big deal. I told him that it was because it was a very thick, very tall curtain. It would be impossible for a person to tear it from top to bottom. God tore the curtain that had covered the Most Holy Place and kept it accessible to only one person who had to follow a bunch of rules before he could go in only once a year. Also, it tore when Jesus died, because it is only because of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross that we all have access to God.
Jadon has heard all of that before, but George's presentation somehow made it all more real to him tonight. He thought for a little while and then said, "It's like it's because we are just human and we can't be perfect, so Jesus HAD to be perfect so He could suck up all of our sins. Then, when they are all inside of Him, we can be clean enough to come to God."
I think there will always be a little mental picture of Jesus as a vacuum cleaner in my mind from this point on. The theology of an 11 year old :)
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