Day 232 - Comfort Zone vs. Mystery Zone
📖Daily Reading
Luke 20
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📝 Reflection
Luke 20: 41-44
Then Jesus said to them, “Why is it said that the Messiah is the sone of David? David himself declares in the book of Psalms. “‘ The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”” David calls him “Lord, ‘How then can he be his son?”
Jesus asks a question here with out giving and answer. Just drops a question and moves on. Earlier in an interaction with the Sadducees, whom we are told do not believe in the concept of resurrection, they are trying to trap him in asking him a question about marriage. If a woman is married to a man, but he dies but he is one of seven brothers, then she marries a brother so that the family name can be carried on, but each brother successively dies and she then marries each brother, whose wife will she be if they are all resurrected. They are trying to catch him in a ‘logical’ argument.
So he in perfect Jesus forms says well… good question, but marriage is only for people living here on earth. Death is also only a concept for people to understand and give language to the end of life as a human. He refers back to the story of Moses and the burning bush to explain in v. 37 “But now, as to whether the dead will be raised - even Moses proved this when he wrote about the burning bush. Long after Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had died, he referred to the Lord as ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ So he is the God of the living, not the dead, for they are all alive to him.”
As I was reading this morning I was sitting in my sisters house, who is a lovely host btw, but I was out of my comfort zone a bit. Then I am reading all of this in chapter 20 and Jesus is asking my mind and heart to get out of it’s comfort as well. It is a strange thing to ponder the meaning of what he is trying to say. As he instructed the Sadducees to go back to Moses and the burning bush, I also did the same. Exodus 3 v 2 says “There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.” He is asking us to believe the unbelievable the ‘impossible’. There are things that don’t fit within our logic or the physical tangible laws of nature as we understand them. There is more to ‘us’ and life than our physical bodies.
We have an ‘is-ness’ to our existence that exists outside of our earthly bodies that will not be burned up. Although it will appear as though we are ‘dead’ the flames of death will not burn us up. Flames exist, bush exists and bush does not burn. God speaks to Moses at this time and says ‘I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ He then instructs him to go to Pharaoh and rescue his people. He is overwhelmed and says ‘who me? I can’t do that’ God says ‘oh yes you can and you will tell them who sent you!’ Moses responds so I am supposed to say ‘the God of my fathers has sent me to you and they will ask me ‘What is his name?” Moses: “What do I tell them?” V14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM” tell them “I AM has sent me to you.”
We are made in God’s image, in ‘I AM’s’ image. Jesus lets us wrestle with a lot of unanswered questions in this chapter. In the beginning of the chapter, his authority is questioned. He responds with a question back ‘John’s baptism - was it from heaven or of human origin?’ (V4). They discuss and they don’t want to be caught in a trap by their own answer, so they respond ‘we don’t know’ so he says ‘neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”
We are being confronted with mystery and asked to trust even though our logical brains want it to make sense, it wants it to be ‘believable’, that is our comfort zone as humans. We can’t use human logic to figure out God and what comes next. This is uncomfortable but God is a great host and will make sure our needs are met as we wrestle with our faith and do our best to trust and walk it out. He knows how hard it is for us and he appreciates those of us who are willing to get out of our comfort zone and get into the spiritual zone that is filled with mystery and wonder. It ‘is’ just as real as anything we can wrap our minds around with logic, maybe even more so…
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
How and what can you do more to cultivate and embrace the mystery zone vs. the comfort zone?
📖Tomorrows Reading
Luke 21
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