Luke
7:18-35
After
reading these scriptures I was reminded of the old saying ‘there is nothing new
under the sun’ and just to be perfectly honest I didn’t realize that it came
from scripture until I looked it up tonight.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 says… What has been will be again, what has been done
will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun. There was only one John the Baptist and there is definitely only one Jesus, but people’s ways of thinking are nothing new---it seems that some people can never be satisfied and some people can never see the truth even when it is right in front of them. The Pharisees and the experts in law did not see what was right in front of them, the truth. It is no different today, Jesus is all around us and we will see that, we will feel his presence if we will just look for it. It is no different today than it was then, there were those that believed and those that didn’t. I want to always stay on the believing side. Jesus refers to the ‘people of this generation’ basically complaining to each other about what they did and no one responded---no different today. We worry too much about why people are not responding to what we are trying to do, why people don’t realize what we do, why people don’t understand us, but quite honestly that is just a waste of our time. Our focus should always be on Jesus and his will for our life. I know that I have been so consumed with myself that I miss what Jesus is trying to show me, I worry about what everyone thinks and don’t concentrate on Jesus is trying to tell me. So many times I let myself get in the way of hearing the voice of Jesus. I can only speak for myself, but when Jesus speaks of ‘this generation’ (my generation) I want him to say ---‘the people of this generation sing songs to me, they praise me in the streets, they serve me with their whole heart’. I know what you are thinking because I am thinking the same thing---we need a huge change in our generation to get to that point…so with that I say we better get to work!
there is nothing new under the sun. There was only one John the Baptist and there is definitely only one Jesus, but people’s ways of thinking are nothing new---it seems that some people can never be satisfied and some people can never see the truth even when it is right in front of them. The Pharisees and the experts in law did not see what was right in front of them, the truth. It is no different today, Jesus is all around us and we will see that, we will feel his presence if we will just look for it. It is no different today than it was then, there were those that believed and those that didn’t. I want to always stay on the believing side. Jesus refers to the ‘people of this generation’ basically complaining to each other about what they did and no one responded---no different today. We worry too much about why people are not responding to what we are trying to do, why people don’t realize what we do, why people don’t understand us, but quite honestly that is just a waste of our time. Our focus should always be on Jesus and his will for our life. I know that I have been so consumed with myself that I miss what Jesus is trying to show me, I worry about what everyone thinks and don’t concentrate on Jesus is trying to tell me. So many times I let myself get in the way of hearing the voice of Jesus. I can only speak for myself, but when Jesus speaks of ‘this generation’ (my generation) I want him to say ---‘the people of this generation sing songs to me, they praise me in the streets, they serve me with their whole heart’. I know what you are thinking because I am thinking the same thing---we need a huge change in our generation to get to that point…so with that I say we better get to work!
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