*Jesus Loves Me!!!*

As I sat in church this morning. We had the usual pre-Christmas rituals. This morning we lighted the Advent Candles, the choir had their contata. Then the preschool was suppose to sing a song, but only one little girl showed up. So our choir director had her sing Jesus Loves Me with the choir in the background. As I sat and lsitened to this 5 year old girl tell me that Jesus loves her, to be very Wesleyan, my heart was strangely warmed. She got it, the simple truth of the gospel, she didn't need 15 commentary sets, she didn't need to see what the early church fathers said, or what any writer or book said. As she sang I thought back to Mark 10 where Jesus says whoever does not recieves the kingdom of God like this little child will not enter it. She sang that Jesus loved her because the Bible tells her so, that was good enough for her. Ah, if only we could see the world as a child, then and only can we see just how simple the message of Jesus is.