“Jesus
became a wrecking ball to life in Galilee and Judea as he came out of the
wilderness in the power of the Spirit (Luke
4:13-14). With his cousin,
John the Baptist, arrested, Jesus roared into action. Jesus came out of the
wilderness with a sense of urgency, a vision with unparalleled clarity, and
insight that there is more to any moment and situation than meets the eye."
"Far from the learned conclaves of religious leaders in Jerusalem, Jesus
roamed the shore of the Sea of Galilee in search of leaders. Kingdom leaders.
Two pairs of brothers, yearning for the kingdom to come, are called by Jesus
into the kingdom task. Two were casting nets and two were repairing nets:
ordinary business work by ordinary, unschooled men. “I am going to make you
fishers of people.”
"Jesus and the four fishermen soon entered a synagogue and the service
was blasted by chaotic yelling (Mark 1). What a surprise! Demons right there in
worship! Can’t
you hear some people saying, “Who knew that old Abijah was possessed with a
demon?”
But
Jesus showed up, and the cosmic powers of evil were expelled with a word
“The
people were amazed, astonished, shocked at his teaching, because he taught as
one who had authority . . . .”*
one who had authority . . . .”*
This
is the God Whom we worship, Jesus, the one ruling this world with the same power
that he used to create the world, the very same power that is holding the world
together, the very power by which we, knowingly or not, live every moment of our
lives.
Our
first act of worship is to acknowledge that it only, quite literally only, by
the gracious power of God in Jesus Christ ruling the universe at every moment
that we live and breathe and move and have our being
*italics paraphrased from John Frye
*italics paraphrased from John Frye
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