[Discoveries] 11-17-07 How do you explain? -- Mark 10:33-34

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*"We are going up to Jerusalem," [Jesus] said, "and the Son of Man will 
be betrayed to the chief priests and teachers of the law. They will 
condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles, who will 
mock Him and spit on Him, flog Him and kill Him. Three days later He 
will rise." -- Mark 10:33-34*/

God has a big challenge on His hands. How do you communicate a big 
message to a small person? I remember the first time my daughter had 
surgery, she was only six months old. I had no way of preparing her. All 
I could do is walk back and forth in front of the fish tank in the 
pediatric waiting room, holding her, and singing, "Jesus loves me, this 
I know ..."

Jesus prepares His disciples for the greatest event in history, and they 
cannot comprehend what He is saying. I wonder if this is why Christians 
argue so much about end time prophecies. Maybe God is saying it plainly 
and we can't take it in.

The disciples didn't understand what Jesus was saying until after He 
rose from the dead.

But isn't this the way it is with so much of life? We need to experience 
the truth before we understand it. This is why a young preacher straight 
out of seminary can preach a sermon filled with wonderful theology and 
we look at him and say "huh?" -- yet a man of God who has walked with 
God for many years (experience) will stand up and share simple Bible 
truths and we walk away with our lives transformed.

God's explanations will someday make sense -- but you will probably need 
to experience them before you can understand them.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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