{"id":874,"date":"2008-11-08T22:05:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T22:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/out_of_the_mouths_of_babes.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:46","slug":"out_of_the_mouths_of_babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/out_of_the_mouths_of_babes.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Mouths of Babes …"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the way home from the harvest party tonight we were listening to Casting Crowns<\/a> and the song While You Were Sleeping<\/a> came on. It’s about how Jesus came into the world while Bethlehem (verse 1) and then Jerusalem (verse 2) slept and missed the savior. Each verse ends with the phrase “you will go down in history \/ As a city with no room for its King” and the girls wanted to know what that meant, so I explained how it meant that they would be remembered for missing Jesus.
\nVerse 3 is directed to America:<\/p>\n

United States of America
\nLooks like another silent night
\nAs we’re sung to sleep by philosophies
\nThat save the trees and kill the children
\nAnd while we’re lying in the dark
\nThere’s a shout heard ‘cross the eastern sky
\nFor the Bridegroom has returned
\nAnd has carried His bride away in the night, in the night
\nAmerica, what will we miss while we are sleeping
\nWill Jesus come again
\nAnd leave us slumbering where we lay
\nAmerica, will we go down in history
\nAs a nation with no room for its King
\nWill we be sleeping
\nWill we be sleeping<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They didn’t understand why it now spoke to America, which I can understand. After all, Jesus never came here at all. I explained that the writer saw in America a lot of things that weren’t what God wanted, America wasn’t following God or obeying His commands.
\nTo which Audrey (9) blurted out, emphatically:<\/p>\n

Well, we’ve gotta stop it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wish the written word could convey her tone. It was not a judgmental decree for the righteous to stand against the evil ones. Instead it was the simple declaration of a child that if we’re not following God, well, we should just stop it!
\nYep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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