TEACH FROM THE FATHER'S AGENDA

Think of it!  Jesus "spent His days in the Temple teaching, but His nights out on the mountain called Olives." So it tells us in Luke 21:37.

Jesus had made so many friends through teaching and healing, I wonder how many beds had been offered to Him in those days.  If He had healed my daughter or son, I would have opened my doors as well as my heart to Him. 

Missionaries have spent months with us when they were "home", and it was a joy! We were fortunate to have a kitchen off our  basement family room and an additional bedroom right there, too.  We couldn't sleep them all, but they could congregate together for dinner each evening.  God blessed us by their presence. Surely in Jesus day someone might have given Him a home!

Why would He choose to bed down in the dampness and cold of a mountain's terrain when He could have a nice warm bed?  Well, I am certain of this answer, as you probably are, too!

He was with His disciples!  He had so much to share with them and so little time.  Companionship is  vital when one is doing an important work.  Whatever God told Jesus to teach the following day, Jesus could have "dress rehearsal" among His friends.  So, what He taught the following day in the Temple He may have taught to His disciples the night before.

Even more important is what Jesus might have done before He taught His disciples.  You guessed it!  He prayed. What would Jesus have asked the Father?  Perhaps, Lord God, What do you want me to teach tomorrow?  Do you want me to list the prophets who foretold of my coming? Do you want to remind them that it is You and  only You who is Holy?  Do you want me to tell them that all things must begin with You and end with You?

As Jesus was and is the living form of the Creator and Holiest of Holies, Our Lord God, I have no doubts that Jesus prayed from the Father's Agenda for Jerusalem. Jesus, the Holiest and greatest teacher in the world first prayed, just as we must do.

 So, now, we pray, you and me, that our Lord God will tell us what we must pray for, who we must pray for and what we must teach to the World.  We may have no disciples to befriend us, but we have the Master Himself who is our friend and our Teacher. Who would dare ask for more?  We must not ask to be a great teacher.  We must not ask to be a known teacher.  We must simply ask to teach from the Father's Agenda. 

Can we do it?

I hope so. I am praying that it will be so.  Jo