Day 10: Luke 5-9 Opening Reflection
In today’s prescribed text we see people with practical faith going to Jesus asking Jesus for healing, along with a few men being called by Jesus to his disciples. These people who needed healing would all submit to Jesus’ authority bowing and worshiping Him and the men who were called by Jesus left everything they had. Jesus also healed many people in all the surrounding areas for he had great compassion for all who were brokenhearted, poor, sick and in need of healing. You have Jesus being reached for and pulled on in hopes of healing. You have Jesus who can just speak words and healing take place. He did not discriminate between situations for all are sinners. Jesus was even able to forgive sin. What stands out to me most, however, was that there are many things that we do not wish to continue to do even though we may feel a coercion to try again because on our own time we have done them before and our efforts did not create any produce. How much better things work when it is own Jesus’ timing and in the presence of Jesus.In Luke we have the teachings of Jesus and the saying, “Blessed are those who are poor, and hungry and woe to those who are full and rich for they have already received their reward. I began to think – being rich and poor or hungry and full are all perceptions. So I would like to suggest that Jesus was saying that those of you who are on your egotistical pedestals thinking you are rich and full have a perception that does not allow you to yearn for the Kingdom of God because you are satisfied in your current position. A yearning is a burning desire – How many of us yearn to be more like Jesus?
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I am amazed at John the Baptist’s life. It appeared that even in his mother’s womb he knew that he had a special connection with Jesus (Noted in our previous reading). However, I wonder why he chose to live in the wild and eat honey and locust? Was that his only food?
The Gospel According to Luke: As someone who loves history I feel that Luke was a historian and that there is a great distinction between how he wrote and how John and Mark wrote. Luke’s writing of the gospel includes narratives, e.g., (boy Jesus in the Temple - 2:41-52)and the raising of the widow’s son at Nain (7:11-17).
Being rich or poor is purely “perspective.” What would happen if we all gave thanks for God and realized that ALL of our blessings come from God (not just material things, family, etc). I think that we would then be foolish not to yearn for the Kingdom of God and to be more like Jesus.