Read Luke 22:66-71
Jesus responds to their question, “are you the Messiah?” (verse 67) by pointing out the hypocrisy of the question. They had already made their minds up that He wasn’t the Messiah (not the one they were looking for), so answering would do no good. Faith is so often a matter of emotion and feeling, and is influenced largely on the answers given that satisfy those two things.
Journal your thoughts on that last sentence.
Jesus didn’t need to defend Himself. For He knew that soon He would be seated on the right hand of God, fully vindicated through His resurrection.
Read Psalm 110:1.
Sometimes we are called to defend our Christian faith, and other times we are asked to humbly suffer because arguing would serve no good purpose and certainly misrepresent the Savior who called us to radical forgiveness and enemy-love.
The emblem of the Christian faith is a cross.
And He’s forthcoming about the conditions that accompany your decision:
“Take up your cross daily and follow Me.” Luke 9:23
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.” John 15:18
"You will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution.” Mark 10:30
“In this world you will have trouble…” John 16:33
No comments:
Post a Comment