Good Morning Friends,
“On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples
asked him, ‘Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the
Passover?’ So he sent two of his
disciples, telling them, ‘Go into the city and a man carrying a jar of water
will meet you. Follow him. Say to the owner of the house he enters, “The
Teacher asks: ‘Where is my guest room,
where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ He will show you a large upper room,
furnished and ready. Make preparations
for us there.”’ The disciples left went
into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.” (Mark
14:12-16)
This is an amazing story.
First, note the attitude of the
disciples. Jesus gave them instructions
that didn’t seem to make any sense. They
were to go into the city and when they met a man carrying a jar of water they
were to ask him where the room was where the Lord would share the Passover with
His disciples. If anyone in the world
gave you that kind of instruction you would think he was crazy and you wouldn’t
do what he told you to do. But the
disciples had been around Jesus enough and seen Jesus do enough amazing things
that they did just what Jesus told them to do.
That is an amazing demonstration of the faith of the disciples.
Second, note that what Jesus said would
happen did happen just as He said it would.
When the disciples got into the city they met a man carrying a jar of
water. When they asked the man about the
room where Jesus would share the Passover with His disciples, the man showed
them the room. It was as if the man was
expecting Jesus to eat the Passover in his room. It was already prepared and no one else was
planning to use it – or if they were they quickly made other arrangements so
Jesus could have it. That is an amazing
demonstration of the foreknowledge of Jesus.
Finally, consider how the man responded to
the request of Jesus. There was no
arguing that someone else was planning to use the room for the Passover –
perhaps even the man himself and his family.
There was just immediate submission to the request of the Master. That is an amazing demonstration of
submission, without question.
This is a simple story from the life of
Jesus, but it says so much about His power – so much about His disciples’ faith
– and so much about His followers’ submission.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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