An Encouragement

Something I read in a book: ‘The Four Gospels never depict Jesus in a hurry. Never.’ I have thought about this. I think it’s true. He was never rushing about. It is impossible for ‘Scurrying’ and ‘Jesus’ to fit in the same sentence, unless there’s a ‘Never’ in the sentence also. And yet, at the end of His ministry Jesus was able to say that He had completed the work that the Father had given Him. Never in a hurry, yet He completed it all.

Now, according to received wisdom, this is where all the ‘shoulds’ and ‘oughts’ are supposed to come in. ‘Here are the things that you need to do to have a better organized life.’ But how is that encouraging? Law kills.

What is encouraging, however, is to think that we can complete the work the Father has given to us, and do that without scurry about, rushing here and there, pushing, pushing, pushing. Jesus did it. And since the point of the Gospel is to make us like Jesus, then the Spirit is already at work to make us like Him this area also. He is doing this without our help.

Now that’s encouraging.