Each evening after the network news comes a half an hour of pure drivel about popular people, some whose only reason to be famous is that they are famous. Some are actually talented and we reward them with our adoration and dollars. The latest absurdity I have seen is Shaquille O’Neal’s willingness to follow us on Instagram for $500 or for the well-heeled, one can have breakfast with Mr. O’Neal at his home for $15,000.
Oh, but the mobs are fickle. In Mark 1 we read of the results of Jesus’ healing a leper, “Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.” So where were the crowds on that Thursday night in Gethsemane when He was alone? Actually the religious leadership wanted to get Him on the cross early in the day lest the crowds did riot in His favor. They did their evil in the darkness of night.
I was wondering how much I would be willing to pay to have breakfast with one of Jesus’ disciples or Paul. The reason I did not say Jesus is because we already have an invitation to sup with Him. And we don’t have to go to His house. He will come to us. “I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” Jesus does not require a check. “. . . will He (God) not also with Him freely give us all things? …” Romans 8:32. This Jesus of ours is amazing. He really deserves our adoration.
Written by Roger Bothwell on March 20, 2014
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