Morning, Zane.
I think you’ve been anticipating your truck back from being repaired. Has that happened yet?
I haven’t yet figured out how to navigate my day—selecting stuff most urgent and skirting stuff non-urgent. I only know that a HEART AFTER GOD needs to be maintained as a constant URGENT. Hope you agree.
Blessings. Love and prayers—Tua/Ray.
I’ve heard some entertaining stories about clever mechanics doing some major modifications to a plain looking Volkswagen Beetle where they removed the stock engine and fitted in a hopped-up Corvette engine. So when the cocky hot rod boys happened by with a smug challenge to a little speed competition, they were shocked out of their skin to see this wimpy-looking Volkswagen lay a surprising patch of tire rubber and totally out strip their hot fast cars. They were simply no match for this unexpected superiority.
In the same way, it’s enjoyable to read these encounters of Jesus with the cocky Jewish hard-heads who thought they were pretty hot stuff—thinking they were so smart and advanced in their knowledge of the Law and Scriptures. How could any plain-looking uneducated carpenter hope to be a match for such advanced brilliance? But time after time Jesus rebounds their questions with such authority, knowledge, and truth that the interrogators end up looking almost like village idiots compared to His unexpected superiority. And why not? He’s certainly no ordinary Volkswagen. Though hard for the antagonists to perceive, this One is fitted with an engine of infinite power and knowledge. Who, in their right mind, could ever expect to compete with God and win?
But wait! You don’t have to take up membership with those who dared not ask Him any more questions. Don’t be afraid to ask Him sincere and honest questions. In fact, you’re encouraged to do so. He’s there and willing to listen and respond. It’s just that those who ask things of Him from a heart of biased rejection are never going to be satisfied.
Let’s review the invitation one more time—“Come unto me, all you who are weary and burdened (and loaded down with questions you can’t answer), and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28)