So . . . continuing with my Lenten Devotion out of "Who is That Man?" by Ray Pritchard . . .
"Who is this man who speaks blasphemies?" (Luke 5:21) The church leaders were asking this question of Jesus as he was healing people and forgiving sins. Who is this person who speaks for God. This isn't the way they expected to see the one who would be their savior, hanging out with sinners and those that were broken. Jesus, this type of man, wouldn't be the one that God dared to send into this world . . . would He?
The church leaders were putting God in a box. Their box. They were wrapping it up and deciding exactly how THEY thought the savior of the world should look. They wanted to control when they let God out of the box and where they let God out of the box. They wanted the monopoly on who held the box and who was able to see into the box.
The problem is . . . you can't put God in a box. The church leaders back then couldn't control Jesus and we shouldn't try to control Jesus now either. Sometimes we think that the only place people should expect to see God is in the box 'the church' places Him in. A sanctuary during worship. Or at a Bible study in a church building. However, while God is there in those places, God is going to show up in places outside that box more often . . . in a downtown bus station at 3 am, in the wilderness of the boundary waters, the eyes of hungry children in orphanages.
Where outside the box do you see Jesus?
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