What Stops you?

This past week at seminary was wonderful. And I wanted to share something that really grabbed me. For some, this is a well-known story from Scripture. But our professor offered us a different place from which to view the passage. So, I took her perspective and I’ve run with it a bit. J

Jesus is using your home as a classroom and it is standing room only. Imagine, perhaps, it’s like shopping the day after Thanksgiving where everyone is after that prized possession, at a deeply discounted price.

It’s a little unnerving having so many in your home and you wonder about those outside who just might be standing in your landscaping beds when, suddenly, you hear noises and pounding from above. Then, pieces of the roof begin to rain on your head as well as on the heads of everyone trying to listen to Jesus. Oh, and on His head as well. Wow.

You’d run outside, struggling to get through the swarm of people to see exactly what is going on and, much to your dismay, there are people on the roof tearing it apart! Does homeowner’s insurance cover this sort of thing? Maybe the insurance company would view this as an act of God? Maybe not! Oh, evay!

Elbowing your way back into your house, you’d see sunshine beaming right into the living room. But then, the rays of sunlight are darkened again as the hole in the roof is covered. What on earth is going on??

Then, slowly down it comes: a person on a mat, in obvious physical need. His friends peer down as he is lowered into the center of the room, before all of us and most importantly, before the Lord Jesus Christ.

So, that leads to the question of the day: How many of us would so value getting our friend to Jesus that NOTHING would stop us?

Be blessed!