“Play with Tunnel, blow bubbles, eat yummy-tummy, go night-night…”
My two year old granddaughter arrived at our house with her whole night planned…
Even more than we knew…
My wife got out the tunnel and started to play her favorite game.
“No!” she said. “Pops play in tunnel!” “Mimi blow bubbles.”
That was exactly what we had done the last time.
She’s a two year-old trying to figure out her confusing world on the basis of what she already knows…
Based on that knowledge, she has a set of rules. Very limiting rules.
Only I play in the tunnel. Only my wife blows bubbles.
Could we humans, barely toddlers in eternity, do the same thing as we try to figure out how Jesus will behave?
Could we be limiting what we expect Jesus to do based on our own experiences and beliefs?
How will we react when He goes beyond our limiting beliefs and does something unexpected?
Will we react like the disciples when Jesus sent them across the lake in a boat without Him?
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, Mark 14:22
He sent them off on their own. Then he came to them in a way they never expected…
During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. Mark 14:25
He came in a way so far beyond their past experiences of Him they didn’t even recognize Him…
When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” Mark 14: 26-27
Peter, who along with the other disciples had already had his faith stretched by going on ahead of Jesus, was ready to have it stretched again…
“Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”
“Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.
But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. Mark 14: 28-32
When we see Jesus do something that exceeds all our expectations, will we doubt what we see, or will we say with the disciples…
“… Truly you are the Son of God.” Mark 14:33
