Luke 7:24 … Into the Wilderness (11/07/16)
“What did you go out into the wilderness to find?”
~ Jesus (Luke 7:24)
It is not for us to go looking into the Heart of another for our own Enlightenment or Truth, nor is it for us to go looking elsewhere for opportunities to fulfill our Life’s many Purposes … Indeed, everything we need to know is already within us, and everything we need to Do is always within sight.
Jesus preached this same Truth clearly & consistently in Matthew 6:34 (“Today’s challenges are enough for today”) and Matthew 25:40 (“Just as you do it for one of the least of my family, so too do you do it for me”), and he did so in this particular biblical passage as well – gently chastising his disciples for seeking in him what they should have been finding within themselves; looking elsewhere for their faith when they should have been enlivening their own; looking for someone to save them from their own trials & tremblings when they should have been enlivening his teachings by seeking to save others from theirs.
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