The Great Conversation Has Great Pauses with Great Meaning
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Wednesday, March 5, 2008 The Great Conversation Has Great Pauses with Great Meaning:
I had a great time visiting with my friend, Stephan Pantezelos. We had breakfast together at the Ranchhouse restaurant. We have started eating breakfast together Wednesday. It has become one of the joys of my life. I am reminded of the verse, ‘there is a friend who sticketh closer than a brother”. We are becoming that type of friend to each other.
As I reflect on the Great Conversation, I think about the way men and women engage in conversation. Most folks pause, linger on words, choose words carefully.. and in one way or the other, are halting in speech, sometimes to underscore the points they wish to make. In my mind, as Jesus spoke to Nicodemus, and those in the room listened, I envision Jesus emphasizing through pause and hesitation that God so loved the world . . . that He gave. .. His Son, His one and only Son. (John 3:16).
Those phrases must have sunk deeply into the heart and mind of Nicodemus who came that nite to learn more about the spiritual force and dynamic he saw at work in the life of Christ. He was not presented with theological truth, or an explanation of why the brand of Christianity he was followed was not correct. Instead, Nicodemus was presented with a God who loved the world so much that He gave and what He gave was His Son, his only Son.