Reflecting on Luke 24:1-12“Then they remembered his words.” (Luke 24:8)
On multiple occasions Jesus explained what would happen to Him.
They heard Him say that He was suffer, be crucified, and then rise on the third day.
Yet for some reason they did not, or could not, hear what He said.
It went totally against what they were expecting, and so they ignored it.
This makes me wonder whether there are words of Jesus we still forget.
Jesus not only explained what would happen to Him, He also spoke to His followers.
He explained very clearly that they were to live differently from the world.
They were to join Him in His kingdom mission of living, loving and leading like Him.
Their job was not to sit back and wait for Jesus to do the work.
He explained that they would be like their Master, and should serve like Him.
Despite our focus on the Bible, do we still forget Jesus’s words?
Jesus does not say we will become great, or that we will be popular or comfortable.
He calls us to humbly serve and graciously bless all people, even enemies.
We are called to carry the cross with Him, with the promise that we will rise too.
Are we guilty of saying ‘Lord, Lord’, but not remembering and doing what He said?
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, the resurrection life involves carrying the cross through humble, gracious love, with the promise that we too will rise on the other side of it. Help us to hear AND remember Your words, and to live them out with Your help!
We are like the disciples, forgetting at time what Christ had said: Do this and live. All too often we depend upon our own resources, thoughts, motives, forgetting to be like Jesus, to do as He did. Yet as His follower, that is His command, Help me this day Lord to carry Your Light in all I do and say.