Posted by Pastor Jim on
October 21, 2011 09:57
When we think of the ministry Jesus did when He walked this earth, various images come to mind. Opening blind eyes, making the lame to walk, cleansing incurable lepers, raising the dead back to life again, casting demons out of people, commanding storms to cease and cursing unfruitful trees. All of it eye-catching, hard to miss type of stuff which was necessary to validate His claim to be the Messiah. However, most of Jesus’ time was not spent on the sensational but rather on the practical. Every single day you could find Jesus in the same place doing the same thing. Teaching the people in the temple (Mark 14:49). Nor was it just confined to that one venue. From mountain sides, at the waterfront, in someone’s living room, Jesus used every opportunity available to Him to teach and preach. Teaching in the temple was nothing new but the people were attentive to hear Him because He taught differently than anyone they had ever heard before. First of all, He taught with an authority and anointing unlike those who they were accustomed to hearing. That set Him apart. So did His message. He came teaching and preaching the Kingdom of God. How it operated, how to access it, how to enjoy the benefits of it. If teaching was so important that it consumed the majority of Jesus’ time, I wonder where we get the idea in today’s church that we already know enough. If the Kingdom really does require childlikeness and children really do possess an insatiable thirst to learn, then we would do well to clothe ourselves with a teachable spirit and soak in as much as we can on a daily basis. The risen Christ is still healing, still performing miracles and He hasn’t stop teaching those with ears to hear.