CMP Review 2024-10-13

Charlotte Mason consistently and faithfully held to the mysteries of the historic Christian faith. In the second of the Anglican Articles of Religion, she read that in Christ, “two whole and perfect Natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God, and very Man.”

In keeping with this mystery, Mason often contemplated the divine nature of Christ as well as His human nature. Sometimes she considered both in the span of a single poem. In Mark 3:19b–20, we read that Jesus and His disciples “went into a house. Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.” According to Ralph Earle, the modern equivalent would be, “They didn’t even have a chance to grab a bite to eat.”

Could the “Source of all strength” need rest? Could a “a Man, exhausted, faint,” be “our God of mighty works”? And what did the crowds find when they came to that house in Capernaum?

The found one who was truly man, for sure. But Mason affirmed that they were also “to find the Very God!” Read or listen to Mason’s poem “He cometh into an house” here.

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