Just struck this morning with a line in Mark 14:19. Jesus has just told the disciples eating the Last Supper with Him that, "one of you will betray me." And "greatly distressed" they each asked Him, "Am I the one?"
Strange. Don't you think they would know? Judas had already agreed to betray Jesus - he certainly knew! But the other 11 all asked (surely Judas did too so he wouldn't stand out) "Am I the one?"
Jesus knows everything before it happens. He knows what I'm going to end up doing today when I don't even know EXACTLY what is going to happen today. And when Jesus is teaching the disciples to pray He says, "lead us not into temptation - but deliver us from evil." Those are forward thinking statements, future tense.
I think, as strange as it seems, this needs to be a question for me everyday. Lord, today, Am I the one who will betray your trust? Today, am I the one who will bring shame on the Name of Christ? Today am I the one who will cause someone to think, "that's why I'm not a christian" ?
Because today, I want to be the one who points someone to Christ. I want to be the one who affirms the faith to others. Today, I want to be the one who stands up for Christ.
Today, Lord - let me be the one who does the right thing, and not the other one.
Thoughts on the Bible, Church, life and living it to its full potential in Jesus Christ!
2 comments:
The extent of God's knowledge of what I am going to do used to freak me out a little bit. It still does sometimes.
yea, me too! But in everything I do (and you do whether in the news biz or coaching or whatever) God can use me to point the right way... If I'm just open to it.
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