Discipling the Undisciplined no. 370

"This is your mother."

Happy Tuesday! I pray that today’s posting will bless your journey with King Jesus in helping expand your relationship with Him. I pray that your walk this week is a blessed one that reflects His light in your life. May His blessings of peace, mercy, and forgiveness permeate each part of your daily walk. Today we are going to continue the study of the gospel according to John.

“Then Pilate handed Yeshua over to them to have him put to death on the stake. So they took charge of Yeshua. Carrying the stake himself he went out to the place called Skull (in Aramaic, Gulgolta). There they nailed him to the stake along with two others, one on either side, with Yeshua in the middle. Pilate also had a notice written and posted on the stake; it read, YESHUA FROM NATZERET THE KING OF THE JEWS Many of the Judeans read this notice, because the place where Yeshua was put on the stake was close to the city; and it had been written in Hebrew, in Latin and in Greek.

The Judeans’ head cohanim therefore said to Pilate, ‘Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but ‘He said, ‘I am King of the Jews’.’

Pilate answered, ‘What I have written, I have written.’

When the soldiers had nailed Yeshua to the stake, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier, with the under-robe left over. Now the under-robe was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom; so they said to one another, ‘We shouldn’t tear it in pieces; let’s draw for it.’ This happened in order to fulfill the words from the Tanakh, ‘They divided my clothes among themselves and gambled for my robe.’ This is why the soldiers did these things.

Nearby Yeshua’s execution stake stood his mother, his mother’s sister Miryam the wife of K’lofah, and Miryam from Magdala. When Yeshua saw his mother and the talmid whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, ‘Mother, this is your son.’

Then he said to the talmid, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that time on, the talmid took her into his own home” (Yochanan (Jhn) 19:16-27).

Jesus is concerned about the welfare of His mother. Dude is literally being murdered and His concern is for his mother, and also for all of us. He is being killed and is more concerned that one of His disciples is going to take care of His mother after He is gone. I don’t know about you BUT that really touches my heart. This right here is Jesus at His best for me.

Jesus is hanging from a cross after being nailed and stripped. Soldiers are dividing up His clothes. He had taken a brutal beating and been crowned with thorns. And He looks down and sees His mother. And He gives His mother a new son to take care of her. It’s just so Jesus. And we can barely help a friend in need when we have a bad hair day. If someone cuts us off in traffic, our entire evening is ruined. Here is Jesus about ready to die worrying about everyone else. It’s so Jesus and so not us.

We are so self absorbed. Every little thing that inconveniences us becomes a huge nightmare that we blow out of proportion. We aren’t facing our certain death nailed to a cross. It’s just traffic. It’s just a comment on social media. It’s just a miscommunication. It’s just so minor yet we let it ruin our entire mission, our entire plan, our entire behavior.

There is always this social media meme that goes around about how folks mirror the respect they are given or they reflect the same energy they get. Not Jesus, and probably, not disciples of Jesus either. We absorb that energy. We absorb that disrespect. And we reflect His light. We have no time for matching energy and getting discouraged because we are already on the side of the dude that overcame the world. I mean that is what it is like to have a King Jesus mindset. On your worst day, you are still loving, serving, and healing.

I think if we took a lot more time to look at how Jesus lived His life and especially how He dealt with His own death, we might get a better example than what the world is putting out for us. We don’t need to be more like anyone else than Him. And if we want to match energy, let’s match His. If we want to mirror a life of action, let’s choose His.

Live free. Be a blessing. Grace and Shalom to your home.