Jesus wanted us to know, as we wait for the Kingdom, that He would one day come back to the earth, both to reunite with His people and to rule and judge humanity. This should encourage us to be ready and eager for that day to come! SHOW MORE
To Know Him and Make Him Known
Rogue Messiah
It was only natural for the disciples to want God’s Happy Ending for the world immediately – they’d been through so much! But Jesus challenged them to be patient, for they had work to do first. The good news was that they’d have help along the way, and their happy ending was soon to come.
Disappointment with God’s choices of how to run the universe is inevitable when we encounter circumstances that make no sense to us. Jesus calls us in those moments to express it to Him openly, study the clues that He has left behind for understanding, and trust His heart that it’s all necessary.
It’s always been hard for people to believe that death can be defeated, that someone could rise from the dead. It was hard for Jesus’s own disciples to believe when it happened, it’s going to be hard for people today. Those of us who are convinced it happened must have patience with and sympathy for…
: The best way to know a person’s thoughts is to hear their words. What do Jesus’ famous last words reveal about His heart?
As we head into this Easter season, let’s shift our focus from what Jesus has done for us to how we might be able to give him a costly and purposeful gift that touches his heart and makes sure that He knows how much He means to us.
A crisis often serves to reveal our hidden fears that Jesus doesn’t really care about what happens to us. But what if Jesus allows crises to expose those fears, so that we will learn to cry out to Him, to trust His heart, and to take Him more seriously?