Who is Jesus?

           Who is Jesus? There is a book that one of my children checked out from her school library called that. It is a series of books titled "Who is........?" I have seen two of them, so far, in that series. One was "Who is Dolly Parton?" and then the other one was "Who is Jesus?" My girl only finished it in three days though which is good for a 4th grader. I don't know how I feel about just having a book in the library about Jesus but then I got to thinking about it deeper. This girl really needs something like that. It might just be a history or bio book to her now but it could grow on her.
          She told me she read it because of the AR reading list they have at there school. There are certain subjects that you have to read about and take a test on and "Who is Jesus?" went under the subject of Biography, which it is but there is more to it too. She summed it up pretty well to me and at a perfect moment. The moment couldn't have been more perfect. It was this past Friday at my job. I was cleaning the children's baskets during movie time and I ask one girl to help me. I asked a certain girl because she was Indian and I wanted to know more about her culture and she if she would talk about it one on one with me.
          Then this other girl came along and asked if she could help clean the baskets and I said "sure". I said that because she was one of the first ones that I made a deep connection with about her mom having cancer and I just wanted to see how she was doing along with her mom. Well, either talk happened because God thought about taking it another way so He did. The girl that volunteered herself started talking about this book that she just got done reading and that was "Who is Jesus?". I forget how we got on the subject of books but before I knew it we were there. So I kind of encouraged that girl to tell me what the book was about and she got every word right down to the death on the cross.
          I mean she started with the 12 disciples and remembered that one of them mocked Jesus while He was getting ready to go to the cross. She told me everything that happened up to the cross with the king and what he said. She told me how many hours Jesus was on the cross and then she told me exactly how Jesus got to be laid in a tomb. The selling the tomb to one of the disciples because he asked and so on. Then she talked about Jesus rising from the dead three days later. It was probably the best way I have heard a "little" one tell the story of Salvation in such a simple way. Just think it was a summary of a book from her school library.
         I asked some questions just to made sure she got it but my words didn't mean much so I forgot what I asked. After we got done for the day and as I was driving home, I was thinking about that moment and how much of a different that girl could have made to that other girl helping with the basket. The other girl was pure Indian. She doesn't celebrate Christmas and she is from India. I know that doesn't mean much but still if you knew her you could tell she is strong in her cultural beliefs which is fine. She did listen really good to what the other girl was saying. There were times where she would try to talk about that didn't stop the other girl from telling me about then book.
         I came home and prayed that night about the girl talking about the book and praying that it would not just be a library book but a real life for her to live if she doesn't already. That somehow she connects that book to another book say like the Bible or something from a church or even church. Now that I am writing this I am also thinking about praying for the little Indian girl that was right there when we were talking about it. That she would get some of it in her head and think about it. I just thought that was a pretty cool moment and I didn't want it to end. I tried to get the girl back onto talking about the book but she went on about another book she read and what the tests are like.
         I just pray that two lives were somehow changed on that day. That a seed started to grow and/or one was in the works of growing. It is all about who is around us and not about us. God's Mission is to bring Glory to Him through His works and not ours. He is sending us the outside world here so we need to keep an eye out and an ear open. I picked both of those girls for a reason and I didn't even know it until the end of the day.