Oh! That's what you meant!

      Maurice Sendak-- many aren't too familiar with that name.  William Faulkner-- a few more people will know who he is.  Now, Jesus Christ-- oh, I know that one!

     In 1963, a man published a rather obscure children's picture book that nobody really had any interest in.  The storyline was just too confusing (for little children) and the monsters and illustrations just didn't appeal very well universally.  Therefore, the book had very shoddy reviews.  A bit discouraged but not very unfazed, the author continued to write until his death in 2012.  By then, he had received world renown for his works.

     Now another man existed in the early parts of the 20th century.  He wrote many, MANY works of literature that have now come to critical acclaim.  This man, too, had his fair share of critics and judges.  He had worked hours upon hours to write the things that he did to no avail.  However, after his passing were people then able to realize the magnitude of his writing-- and his history.

     Sounds familiar?  Yes, Jesus Christ ultimately began his ministry of misunderstood truth LONG before any poet, author, or laureate.  Let's look at his chat with a man named Nicodemus. 

     Jesus had told him that "except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). 
     Baffled, Nicodemus followed up "How can a man be born when he is old?  Can he enter his mother's womb a second time and be born" (John 3:4)?
     In many ways, the peers of Jesus, including his own disciples, had misunderstood Him throughout his Earthly ministry-- "What do you mean the temple [of Herod] is going to be built back up in 3 days?"  "How will cannibalism give me eternal life?"  "How will faith save us from this raging storm in the middle of the sea?"  These are the many questions the Pharisees and Sadducees and His Twelve Apostles had in regard to the teachings of the Messiah.

     The book published in 1963 was known to the public as Where the Wild Things Are.  The many writings of that author included A Rose for Emily and Absolom! Absolom!, receiving critical praise later on in history (and now, even).  These often ignored authors in their present-days have been spat at and looked down upon because many of the things they were writing were obscurely new-- uncomfortably contemporary.  Jesus-- in His heyday-- had taught nothing but the truth, which the mass, both the Jew and the Gentile, had thought it incredibly revolutionary.  Now, even now, the church that He had set has seem the growth to millions and millions of adherents.  His teachings has universal and spiritual purpose and blessings to the world today.  Maybe now we may better understand the extent of the teachings of Christ to our own lives.  Misunderstood then and praised now, come see why from your local missionaries!  The kingdom of God awaits you, starting with a rebirth of a spiritual you!