To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:
We played the flute for you,
but you didn’t dance;
we sang a lament,
but you didn’t mourn!Matthew 11:16-17
I like westerns. I think of the bad-guy telling the mousy guy at the bar “dance” as he fires shots at his feet. That’s the same kind of image Jesus is painting here. They wanted Jesus to dance. They brought their demands of what they wanted their faith to be, and Jesus didn’t play along… he still doesn’t. We don’t get to choose the terms of our faith. We shouldn’t expect everything to be perfect, people to treat us just the right way, and everything to be “just so” or we’re leaving. It doesn’t work like that, we are servants, he’s the master. We aren’t the ones in charge, he is. Follow Jesus today, don’t ask others to dance for your amusement, don’t ask Jesus to perform for you. “I tried church/Jesus and it didn’t work” He works, it’s just he isn’t trying to fulfill our preferences.
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