A Change in our Perspective

When I go somewhere new, I become a stereotypical tourist. Every new thing delights and amazes me, as I annoy the people around me by exclaiming over everything that to them seems perfectly ordinary or insignificant.

But I am in good company, because in Mark 13:1, one of the disciples does this very same thing, exclaiming over the massive stones and majestic buildings of the temple:

 

“And as He went out of the temple, one of His disciples saith unto Him, Master, what manner of stone and what buil...