His son had been seven years of age when the terrible Cultural Revolution swept through China. The father was suddenly imprisoned in his own office. For the next several years the father didn't know why he had been branded a class enemy or how long his sentence. He had no idea of what was happening in China or to those he cherished.

Many a long night he contemplated suicide. Only one certainty prevented him. At dawn--summer, spring, winter and fall--he could peer through a crack in the boarded window daily and see a tiny vermilion kite in the sky. Sometimes it hovered at eye level. Sometimes it soared into the heavens. Sometimes it was barely visible. That familiar sight never failed to inspire hope. For always he knew...someone was sending him a message. Someone on the outside waited faithfully. Someone cared. And so the father held onto life as tightly as he had once taught his son to hold on to the tether of his kite. (5) His son had given him hope to go on. Now he would do whatever his son requested.

Obviously Christ did not give God hope to go on. It is an imperfect analogy. And yet the picture that the New Testament gives us is that kind of relationship between Father and Son, so that whatever Christ asks, the Father grants. And since Christ in his humanity has become us all, what he has asked is that we--you and I--might be given rights of eternal sonship. And thus in Christ--Christ the eternal King--Christ the humble servant--the gap between divinity and humanity has been forever bridged. No wonder millions of persons of every age, nationality, educational background and political persuasion bow at the name of Jesus and proclaim Him King of their lives.

Ron Newhouse

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