CMP Review 2025-03-09

“Sadly,” warns Pastor Shane Idleman, “many confuse God’s patience with His approval.” Charlotte Mason saw a similar tendency: Christ’s servants sometimes “mistake needful delays for His forgetfulness.” But warnings like this are easier to remember when “clothed in a tale,” so Christ gives us a parable.

Mason’s poem “The thief in the night” takes this the one-sentence parable and expands it to a story. The poem draws us in so we can linger on the important and urgent warning of the tale. Read or hear the poem, along with notes from J. R. Dummelow, here.

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