Finding more answers
This week is on Mark 5:21-24:
These verses deal with a religious guy who realized he didn't have everything figured out. A lot of people come to Christ this way, having been in the church all their lives and realizing they don't know the whole story. If you're one of those people, Jesus doesn't hate you. :)
Religious people aren't the only people who think they have everything figured out. You see it in secular fields, and even in young people wrapped up in various political ideologies. You talk with someone like this, and everything you say gets filtered through this narrow worldview based on dogma and superstition. Our minds aren't capable of knowing the whole truth about the world we live in and the people around us. The most ignorant people are the people who think they have everything figured out. At some point in their lives, they've decided that what they know is all the knowledge there is in the universe.
The synagogue leader who found Jesus wasn't one of those people when he fell at Jesus' feet. He knew that his religious training, and his political power, and the science of the day, could not solve the problem he had. His daughter was dying. He had no way to fix that on his own. He could have continued to search the knowledge he already had, or he could try something new.
The synagogue leader found Jesus and fell and begged. The leader was now a beggar. Jesus could have lectured him on his religiosity and pointed him out, but he was more interested in helping him. His little daughter ended up being one of the people raised from the dead by Jesus. The real question is whether that would have happened if he'd stayed back at the synagogue, stayed powerful and respected, and pretended for the people that he had all the answers.
Sometimes we have to publicly acknowledge that we don't have all of the answers. We have to let someone else help. Sometimes we have to beg. But isn't it all worth it, if it solves a problem we couldn't solve on our own?
When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” So Jesus went with him.
These verses deal with a religious guy who realized he didn't have everything figured out. A lot of people come to Christ this way, having been in the church all their lives and realizing they don't know the whole story. If you're one of those people, Jesus doesn't hate you. :)
Religious people aren't the only people who think they have everything figured out. You see it in secular fields, and even in young people wrapped up in various political ideologies. You talk with someone like this, and everything you say gets filtered through this narrow worldview based on dogma and superstition. Our minds aren't capable of knowing the whole truth about the world we live in and the people around us. The most ignorant people are the people who think they have everything figured out. At some point in their lives, they've decided that what they know is all the knowledge there is in the universe.
The synagogue leader who found Jesus wasn't one of those people when he fell at Jesus' feet. He knew that his religious training, and his political power, and the science of the day, could not solve the problem he had. His daughter was dying. He had no way to fix that on his own. He could have continued to search the knowledge he already had, or he could try something new.
The synagogue leader found Jesus and fell and begged. The leader was now a beggar. Jesus could have lectured him on his religiosity and pointed him out, but he was more interested in helping him. His little daughter ended up being one of the people raised from the dead by Jesus. The real question is whether that would have happened if he'd stayed back at the synagogue, stayed powerful and respected, and pretended for the people that he had all the answers.
Sometimes we have to publicly acknowledge that we don't have all of the answers. We have to let someone else help. Sometimes we have to beg. But isn't it all worth it, if it solves a problem we couldn't solve on our own?
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