William Norman Ewer once wrote:
How odd
Of God
To Choose
The Jews.
Then Cecil Browne decided to add a second verse in reply:
But not so odd
As those who choose
A Jewish God,
But spurn the Jews.
When I first read this it struck a chord with me. I began to think of how I have claimed to love God, but I have failed to love those He loves. Recently as I have been going through the book of Genesis I have begun to fall in love with the Jews. I can’t explain it, but for some reason I really have a heart for them. I find myself wishing and hoping that they will turn to Jesus and realize that He is the Messiah they have been waiting for.
I feel like this poem is not just limited to the Jews, but rather it reaches to all mankind made in the image of God. It speaks about this in the book of James chapter 3 verses 9 and 10: “With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.” That last sentence, “it should not be” may be such an obvious truth, but it is in the obvious truths that I find myself taken breathless.
Anyhow this is really been laying heavy on my heart for the last little while.
