The blind and the lame came to him in the Temple, and he healed them.

The leading priests and the teachers of religious law saw these wonderful miracles and heard even the children in the Temple shouting, "Praise God for the Son of David."

But the leaders were indignant.

They asked Jesus, 

"Do you hear what these children are saying?"

"Yes,"

Jesus replied. 

"Haven't you ever read the Scriptures? 

For they say, 

'You have taught children and infants to give you praise.'"

Matthew 21:14-16 NLT

Jesus returned the temple from what it had become into a place of healing, of hope, of transformation, a place of singing.

And those who had exercised power and control didn't like it. They saw the miracles yet couldn't see them. 

Jesus continued to remind them of who he is by quoting Psalm 8v2 about children giving praise to God.

They saw Jesus yet couldn't see him.

The children did though. These little children who were not yet shaped by the cultural and religious expectations of those around them could see Jesus for who he was and praised him.

Perhaps there's some cultural or religious things I need to drop, bypass, let go of, to not see Jesus through the eyes of church or the faith of others, but like these children did.

To see Jesus who loves and heals and makes whole the hurt, the marginalised and the lost.

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