Wednesday, January 29, 2014 “ YOUR IMAGE AS AN IDOL - ” SCRIPTURE: Luke 19:35-42, 45-46 In this passage, Christ had just finished entering Jerusalem as the king of the Jews. If ever it was a time to guard the people’s image of Him, it was now. Yet the first act He did on dismounting was to go into the temple, overturn the tables of the money¬changers, and drive the dealers out of the court. Why should Jesus turn against His own people? Why did He not take a whip to the Roman slave traders in the marketplace? Because Jesus had been sent first to His own people, as their ruler - to make them an example of purity, Godliness and obedience in a world that was anything but this. He had the right to chastise His own, for they had been told of His coming - they alone had been prepared for a Messiah. Yet they had forgotten it was for this spiritual leadership, for this unique role He had come. In acting as He did, He remained true to the image God desired Him to present; yet how easy it would have been for Him to have bowed to the ambitions of a restless people! How easily He could have become another social revolutionary. Are we falling to this temptation today - afraid of ruining our popular image before the crowd, rather than uphold God’s will for us? Prayer: O God, please make Thy will clear to me that I may always serve Thee first and not men s whims. AMEN
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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