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Have you ever lamented that life doesn’t seem fair?

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13

Do you understand what Jesus is saying here? If the signs done for these people were done for the people of Tyre and Sidon, then they would have repented… yet, they didn’t repent. God does not give everyone an “equal chance” and life isn’t “fair” – it doesn’t seem intended to be.

But God is just. He does not promise to give us all a “fair shake” but he does promise to put everything right in the end. So when life isn’t fair, don’t accuse God of not doing something he promised, or worse, of not being there. He is not the cable guy 4 hours late, he’s doing exactly what he intends to do… trust him.

Do you boldly proclaim the words of Jesus, or do some of them seem “simple minded” or embarrassing to admit you believe???

whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Luke 8:26

Jesus, a feminist?

Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.

Luke 8:1-3

Unlike other movements of the day, especially the later Gnostics, Christianity was (and is) a movement to lift the plight of women who were oppressed because of their gender. Anyone who paints Jesus and the first church as oppressive to women, is insane or ignorant.

What do you expect your god to do?

The disciples of John reported all these things to him. And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’” In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight. And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”

Luke 7

The truth is, most of us have our own expectations of what Jesus should do for us. 

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Jesus chose Judas too…

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

Luke 6

He was chosen, he walked with the Lord, he served with Him for years… yet, Judas wasn’t onboard with Jesus’ agenda.

You may have been chosen, but are you onboard with Jesus’ mission, or do you have your own agenda?

Follow-Jesus, not just today, tomorrow, or for the next few years… for life.