NOT UNDERSTOOD!
Have you ever shared your heart and not been understood? If so, like me, you probably get real frustrated. Explaining just some times makes what we're trying to say even more confusing. Well, welcome to the world of Jesus He often was misunderstood or not understood at all. Much of what He said did not make sense to His listeners, it was rather confusing. We got to remember we are just the messenger, God is suppose to be the author of what we speak.
Have you ever had dreams that don't make sense, then at sometime in life you experience something and feel like you somehow experienced it before. See some dreams are God's way of preparing us inwardly for something that is going to happen outwardly.
Knowing this, can we now understand that God may speak something to us that doesn't make sense now but will when we're going through it. That we might be used by God to prepare the heart's of others even though their mind's may not yet grasp what we are saying.
Such is the case here in Luke 18:31-34, Jesus takes his disciples to the side and predicts his death. They could not get it, they were having the time of their life, seeing miracles, signs, and wonders, their insignificant lives now had meaning. Jesus was drawing crowds of people, He was suddenly popular and they were in His "in crowd", so they were completely blinded to what He said.
In our pride we want people to understand us, we want to make sense, because we want people to hold us in high regard. Jesus had no reputation, He was an instrument of God, He did not have to understand His Father's will, or to try to explain it, He was just obedient. We must humble ourselves and follow His example and then He can use us to prepare the way.
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