Illogical.

I love looking at all of the things Jesus did during His ministry in the Bible and start thinking - "How illogical." I mean who chooses thieves, murderers, tax collectors and grunt fishermen to head their church and legacy. Jesus had the ability to choose whomever He pleased. Jesus could have established His kingdom and reigned in power from the get-go (like the Jews thought He would.) Instead He humbled Himself on earth so He could relate to us on every level. Jesus had the ability to heal people with nothing more than a thought; but He made mud out of dirt and spit and rubbed it on the blind mans eyes, then told him to go wash in the pool of Shalom to receive sight. Why did He do it like that..... What's the deal God.

Now I think of the "what ifs:" What if everything Jesus did was completely logical in the norm. What if everyone who wanted to be healed was so just because they saw Jesus and He knew there was hurt. What if He picked the best of the best to be His disciples? I'll tell you what then... Jesus would not have accomplished His mission.

Before you start throwing rocks at me and calling me a bigot let me explain. Mark 2:13-17 "13Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. 15While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" 17On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."" The only prerequisite to becoming a born again Christian is to have been a sinner, and all have sinned. His purpose in coming was to show redemption for those in need of it and to illustrate the transformation from dirty sinner to perfect and new creation.

Check this out... Jesus did not come to condemn but to save. We need to understand this being a Christian is following after Jesus. If Jesus did not come to judge and be served on earth while He was manifest here, why should we. There is only on judge and it is not us.

Challenge yourself every day to seek God's will and His method of doing things. There is a separate study as to the "whys" of Jesus method of ministry for everything He did; just remember, Sometimes His will makes sense in the natural, but know that it doesn't always look like we thought it would. We are a peculiar people, follow Jesus.