Tomorrow is not yesterday

A certain man came to Jesus and asked him to make his brother share their inheritance. Yet, Jesus answered him “Who made me your judge?” If there is a wise and just judge, it would be Jesus. Yet, because you are good at something, does mean you have to do it. A good pool player has to see not only how can s/he hit the necessary ball with the white ball, but also where the white ball ends; as where the white ball ends will determine: if the next move of the opponent against you is easy or hard.

Before the Russian and Ukraine war, there was a fistfight in the parliament of Ukraine between pro-Russian and pro-West politicians. Politicians acting like little schoolboys is often common in this age, but there was one eye-catching exception in the Ukrainian parliament of that day. While many politicians are fistfighting, like little school boys, one huge member of the parliament is watching the fistfight from a distance. What is interesting is he used to be the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Because he is good at fistfights does not mean, however, he has to join in their stupidity.

 

Jesus came for a higher purpose and judging inheritance does not serve that purpose. So, Jesus was wise enough to stay out of it. The boxer who became a politician has political ideas and ambitions, which cannot be addressed by a fistfight. If the solution was a fistfight, he could stay a boxer and it was wise of him to stay out of such stupidity, therefore. 

 

Imagine a father who was absent from home for a couple of years and who found his children lagging in school. The father being a good teacher and a good father invests most of his time in the development of his kids since his return. Then a neighbor comes and tells him, the color of the house is fading and the house needs a paint job. Is it rational for the father to divert his time from his children to decorate a wall, while exam time is near? There may be time to focus on the paint job but it is better to have a developed brain in a poorly decorated house than a shallow head in a well-decorated house.

 

When the faithful of Jerusalem were sharing everything, the disciples found out that there was a food distribution problem. Yet they don’t want to focus on it, because they have bigger issues that they need to focus on. Serving the kingdom of God was more important than addressing the food problem. The problem is not small, but they have a higher calling than food. It is a job for someone else but not for them.

 

I think shameful ways are going on in churches and what is happening does not honor God, does not honor us, and it is a death trap for those who are promoting it. I think my focus should be on cleaning this shame by writing this post. How can a single man clean this shame? I do not know, I am a solder, not a general. What I know is there is an enemy, and I have a gun in my hand, the target in my sight, a magazine full of bullets, and what I have to do is boom … boom … boom. The issue of logistics, planning, and soon is not my problem.

 

To focus on my main point, we are purchased by the blood of Jesus and we are honored as high as the blood of Jesus. If we are highly valued beings in sight of the lord, should we dream and talk 24/7 about material things? Should we learn and talk about wealth, health, and prosperity 24/7? Is it honorable to start with spirit and to end up with flesh? It is a shameful reality that I want to cure, as we are more important than this garbage that is being sold to us as the word of God.

 

Lord did not become our lord by splitting the Red Sea or by terrorizing Egypt, he died for us. We are purchased for price and we don’t belong to ourselves. So, the lord deserves better worship and better children than us. We are the children of the lord and the lord has no other human children, so we have to be better. Even idol worshipers are not as lowly and as earthly as some churches are. And, Jesus does not deserve this.

 

Even those kids who focus on such wrong “worship” of the lord, do not deserve this. At a young age, we were young and stupid seeking a bottle of beer. They were smart as they sought the lord. The problem is they don’t know God well enough to serve him well. The Pharisees of Jerusalem do try to clean the legs of insects but they don’t know they were swallowing a camel too. This happens because they don’t know God. The same thing is happening with those lost kids, they try to clean the legs of insects; but as they don’t know Jesus, they end up trying to swallow a camel. Both did make the assembly of lord den of thieves and both did hang Jesus on the cross as a result. As the first one suffered for it, I am sure some of those kids are going to suffer for it; because the lord does not allow destruction of his temple in vain. We are his temple, his faithful.

 

I think none of us deserve this. We the sinners because the lord is merciful; the kids because they seek the lord at a young age; the Lord because he purchased us by his blood and flesh; and the holy faithful because they are honored by the blood of the lord to be dishonored by earthly desires of those lost kids. I am trying to redirect our attention toward the lord so the road of the lord can be straight. For this purpose what is low has to rise, what is high has to get low, what is crocked has to be straight, the heart of fathers has to be toward children, the heart of the sinful has to be toward the wisdom of the Holy and all should seek the lord. This is the perfume that I think the lord deserves and the respect that the lord deserves in coming back with power to earth. I think you need to be prepared for his kingdom and I think the Lord deserves better than us.

 

This is about purchasing eternal food for free from Jesus Christ; it is not about buying temporary food for price. This is not about sharing the splendor and comfort of Herod, either Herod the Elder or Herod the Younger. This is about the Kingdom of God.