Baby Talk

I love being a Nana to Bristol and Norah. I love listening to them talk in their own way. Bristol listens intently and says words clearly, but oh, so cute! Norah has a language all her own that no one but God understands! So I naturally thought of them as I read the following devotional from John Piper.

The Precious Gift of Baby Talk, by John Piper

Human language is precious. It sets us off from the animals. It makes our most sophisticated scientific discoveries and our deepest emotions sharable. Above all, God chose to reveal himself to us through human language in the Bible. At the fullness of time, he spoke to us by a Son (Hebrews 1:1-2). But that Son spoke human language, and he sent his Spirit to lead his apostles into all truth so that they could tell the story of the Son in human language. Without this story in human language, we would not know the Son. Therefore, human language is immeasurably precious.

But it is also imperfect for capturing the fullness of God. Read more...