I've been so out of touch. I don't feel motivated to dive into the word, to a book about the word or to even really form my mind around God-based theories. I guess I'm in a stage of being over, over-anilization. I used to love looking deeper into meanings, disputed ideas or any kind of controversial topic, but honestly, just give me Jesus. I'm done over-thinking, overanalyzing, overworking all these ideas.... at least for now. SO - because of this, my eyes glazed over, that is, until I turned to page 42 and the following.
It talks about Jesus being a rebel. How he wasn't afraid to rework the rules that had been put in place by the pharisees. How he took the rules and repurposed their true meaning, by giving a whole new explanation to their purposes.
For example: The Sabbath was seen as a day that men where ultimately created for, they were to respect IT as a higher entity. but Jesus, he re-envisioned the sabbath as a day that is made to observe the Father, that the Son of MAN still had control over, the event was not greater than God, GOD was greater than the event. Which I'm pretty sure blew a few pharisaical minds. But I bechta nothing makes God laugh more than watching haughty, conceited minds get blown out of the water by a
barefoot carpenter's son.
I kind of love it when I see Jesus being a rebel and kick'n some a....butt.
I hope those pharisees thought they were getting punked and Jesus was like "haha, nope. Sorry, not sorry".
Righteous anger and truth teaching. FTW.
.peace brethren.

I love looking at Jesus' life and picturing myself being there. I'm pretty sure I would be judging him like crazy. I'm so glad I wasn't one of the Pharisees because they were the religious people who Jesus was constantly convicting. I think I would have been one of the Pharisees :/ Luckly I'm not and I get to learn from the amazing Rebel/Son of God! ha so cool :)
ReplyDeleteRebel Jesus probably drank red bull. I like your thoughts and I'm interested to see if over the course of this book your passions change back to discovering the secrets of the Word. Of course, I don't think that simply wanting Jesus is a bad thing or that you're wrong for wanting that. I'm just curious...like a cat...
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