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WEDNESDAY THOUGHT 9/3/08

Jesus Had Bad Days, Too
 
As a public speaker, Jesus had good days and He had bad days.  Sermon on the mount:  Wow!  Dead on.  Held the attention of thousands with His eloquence. 
 
And then there were days when all He managed to do was tick people off — not just a drift-away-he’s-a-nut response, but let’s-find-stones-and-get-him fury.  Boy, He could really stir a crowd!
 
My point:  Just because we’re Christians, we should not expect everything we do (yes, even those things in the name of Jesus) to turn out blissfully, joyfully, lovingly perfect. (Fold hands, steeple-style, look heavenward, smile beatifically.)  Yes, we should do the right thing, but sometimes we will need to do it and then run for cover.  God bless and enjoy the blessings God lays before us this day, even if those blessings are in the form of pebbles hurled at us, rather than big rocks. — jri
 
“‘I tell you the truth,’ Jesus answered, ‘before
Abraham was born, I am!’  At that, they picked
up stones to stone him, but Jesus himself,
slipping away from the temple grounds.”
        –    John 8:58-59