Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
NL Daily Devotion for Wednesday, April 20, 2022
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Somehow this just strikes me as so powerfully beautiful. Maybe it’s because I’m a writer, but the idea of such a vast collection of knowledge written down in books just makes me wistfully happy.
Of course, if you were to write down what Jesus’ did every second of his human existence, it would hardly fill a library, much less the world. He was only in his early thirties when he died, after all.
But this isn’t about what Jesus had for breakfast on his birthday in the year 23CE. It’s about what all of it meant. His humanness, his divine nature, his miracles or signs, his favoring of the poor, the sick, the outcast, the non-Jew, his parables, his betrayal, execution, resurrection. It’s far more than the Bible can hold. It’s more than all the theological libraries in the world can hold. It’s more than we can possible imagine because it is absolutely everything in all of creation. Whoa. Just think about that.
Do I ever think about the things Jesus did that didn’t get written down?
