Monday, June 13, 2005
LUKE 9:43B-45
About eight days earlier Jesus had warned the apostles that "the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised." Earlier this day, Peter, James and John witnessed Jesus' transfiguration on the mountain. Jesus came down the mountain and startled everyone by using a simple command to free a young boy of a demon the disciples had been unable to exorcise. Jesus then repeated his warning about his own future.
You'd think after the earlier warning, and after the Transfiguration and the overwhelming manifestation of his power with the boy possessed, the disciples would have gotten some small inkling that Jesus was serious and not talking nonsense. You'd think that they would have asked him a question or two and they would have tried to come to some sort of understanding of what he was talking about.
They asked no questions because they didn't want to know what he was talking about. His words, while somewhat vague, were nonetheless fearfully threatening. Perhaps for them, it was better to remain ignorant.
Sound familiar? Do we really want to know God's will for us?
You'd think after the earlier warning, and after the Transfiguration and the overwhelming manifestation of his power with the boy possessed, the disciples would have gotten some small inkling that Jesus was serious and not talking nonsense. You'd think that they would have asked him a question or two and they would have tried to come to some sort of understanding of what he was talking about.
They asked no questions because they didn't want to know what he was talking about. His words, while somewhat vague, were nonetheless fearfully threatening. Perhaps for them, it was better to remain ignorant.
Sound familiar? Do we really want to know God's will for us?
# posted by F O O D F O R T H O U G H T @ 1:02 PM 
