Dumbledore’s Wink
(re-watching Harry
Potter with the wife…)
Harry
avoided Slytherin and was sorted to Gryffindor.
As he sat down beside Ron, and across from Hermione, he received a warm
welcome from upperclassmen. Then he
looked up at the table on the stage, and smiled as Dumbledore affirmingly and
affectionately nodded and winked in his direction. And, the story begins.
As I
walked across the podium, after three long years of toil, study, research, prayer,
and meditation, I reached with my left hand for the diploma, and with my right
hand to accept congratulations from the Dean, Harold Hazelip, my mentor and
favorite professor. He shook my hand and
hugged my neck as he handed me the paper so long desired. But, he whispered, “Jerry, I did not think I’d
ever see you here…” I pulled back in
shock; and, he just grinned. (I have
sometimes wondered if Hazelip often said such things, or if I was just
special?!)
One
day, soon enough, we will all stand before the Throne for the sorting
ceremony. Will we be sorted with the
Slitherings? Will the head-table smile,
or sadly turn away? Or, will the Lamb
whisper, “… thought you’d never make it…”?!
Be warned,
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter
the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is
in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy
in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many
miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me,
you evildoers!’ (Matthew
7:21-23- NIV)
But, also know that …
“being confident of this, that he who began a good work
in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6 - NIV)
And,
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you
who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for
you since the creation of the world.” (Matthew 25:34 - NIV)
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