Everywhere Jesus went was filled with tension. His disciples were grasping for
positions. Who would sit on his left and
right hand. James and John's Mother
truly thought her sons
should be the privileged.
Jesus come
off a preaching tour with the disciples and stopped in at Mary and Martha's for
some time to relax and discuss the fact that He would be leaving them
soon. It was close to dinner time and
Martha concerned with too many mouths to feed and not enough time to
prepare. She became distracted and
couldn't hear what Jesus had to say. She
forgot He had fed thousands without her help.
First she got distracted, then she got angry with Mary for not helping,
and started telling Jesus what to do.
Jesus shows us a picture of Martha's soul. We will do the same and worse while being
distracted.
Jesus was
at Simon's house. He was not treated as
an honored guest. Simon didn't wash
Jesus feet. When the woman came with the
bottle of expensive perfume and began to wash Jesus feet. She didn't have water so she washed them with
her tears. She didn't have a towel so
she dried them with her hair. She
anointed Jesus with very expensive perfume for his burial. Simon and the others objected. Why waste this perfume? Why wasn't it sold to make money for the
poor? Jesus was always giving. The one time someone did something special
for Jesus, it started an argument. We
don't think of how we grieve Jesus. How
they must have regretted their words later.
We see right into the men's souls and it is not pretty.
The
disciples so distracted by sleep and weariness didn't watch and pray. Distractions are everywhere in our
lives. What are they keeping us
from? When we get distracted we do
foolish things. We get our eyes off
Jesus and worry fills our minds.
Everywhere from every angle we look at the cross was wounds. Love poured out from every wound. People see a picture of our soul. What are they seeing?
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