A woman in a very nice neighborhood answered a knock at her door one morning and found a destitute man standing there.  He wanted to earn money by doing odd jobs, so she asked,  “Can you paint?” “Yes,” he said, “I’m a pretty good painter.”  “Well, here’s a gallon of green paint and a brush.  Go behind the house and you’ll see a porch that needs repainting.  Be very careful.  When you’re done, I’ll look it over and pay you what it’s worth.” In less than two hours he was back at her front door.  “All finished,” he reported with a smile.

“That didn’t take long,” she said, “are you sure you did a good job?”  “Oh, yes ma’am,” he said,  “come and see for yourself.”  And as they started around the corner of the house he said, “Oh, and by the way, you were wrong about one thing:  that’s not a Porsche back there, that’s a Mercedes.”   (Bruce Thielemann, in Leadership, Summer 1996, page 71)

It is so easy to “get it wrong,” to misunderstand, to think we know what folks are talking about, but to be totally wrong!  And that is particularly true about Jesus!  Everybody thinks they know who Jesus is, but relatively few have taken the time to REALLY get to know him!

Matt 13:13 – Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

–Dan Williams