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To Rollin
A Child
The Innkeeper
Copyright ©1998 by John Piper
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Why this struggle? Why does the poet bind his heart with
such a severe discipline of form? Why strain to give shape to
suffering? Because Reality has contours. God is who He is, not
what we wish or try to make Him be. His Son, Jesus Christ, is
the great granite Fact. His hard sacrifice makes it evident that our
spontaneity needs Calvary-like discipline. Perhaps the
innkeeper paid dearly for housing the Son of God. Should it not
be costly to penetrate and portray this pain?
The Innkeeper seeks to reveal the Light that shines behind this
brutal moment in history and our own path of suffering.
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