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Job 22; Mark 7; Mark 8
He Said To Peter, “Get Away From Me, Satan!
You Don’t Care About The Same Things God Does.
You Care Only About Things That People Think Are Important.”
Scripture
31 Then Jesus began to teach his followers that the Son of Man must suffer many things. He taught that the Son of Man would not be accepted by the older Jewish leaders, the leading priests, and the teachers of the law. He said that the Son of Man must be killed and then rise from death after three days. 32 Jesus told them everything that would happen. He did not keep anything secret.
Peter took Jesus away from the other followers to talk to him alone. Peter criticized him for saying these things. 33 But Jesus turned and looked at his followers. Then he criticized Peter. He said to Peter, “Get away from me, Satan! You don’t care about the same things God does. You care only about things that people think are important.”
34 Then Jesus called the crowd and his followers to him. He said, “Any of you who want to be my follower must stop thinking about yourself and what you want.
Observation
What
Peter tried to do when he took Jesus off by himself and rebuked Him might at
first seem like a very good and caring thing for Peter to do. But he tried to
tell Jesus not to do what the Heavenly Father had told Him to do.
But
Peter wasn’t thinking about the well being of Jesus as much as he must have
been thinking about himself. After all, what would Peter do without Jesus? It
was that thought that must have caused Peter to take Jesus aside and rebuke the
Son of God. Imagine telling God what He should and should not do, but we do it
all the time too!
Well-intentioned
people try to talk people out of becoming missionaries and they tell them all
the reasons why going overseas to share the Gospel with the unreached is not
the best thing for them to do.
Reasons
like:
It
is too dangerous you could be killed. You are leaving those that love you
behind to go live with people that you don’t even know. You are taking our
grandkids away from us. Or “If you go live overseas you will never find someone
to marry and we will never have any grandkids”. Or “If you get go live in that
place you could get sick and die. They don’t have good hospitals or medical
facilities there.”
Parents
and grandparents of would be missionaries do this all the time. In reality they
are only caring about what they think is important – their kids or grandkids!
People in our churches do this all the time. They come up with all kinds of
reasons why they can’t and you shouldn’t go overseas to reach the unreached.
God’s
heart is revealed in Matthew 28:19-20
Therefore,
go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all
the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even
to the end of the age."
Crystal
Snow knows that God has called her to reach the people that live in the
villages in the Amazon jungle. She is my hero. Just her wanting to go and live
among those people so they can come to Jesus puts her way up there on my list
of special people. I wonder how many “concerned” people have tried to talk her
out of going. How will they hear unless someone is sent? How can someone go if
we don’t help him or her to go?
Let me know if you would like to help support
Crystal? Even a small monthly gift will her help be able to go! Look her up on
facebook right now!
Application
I will encourage people like Crystal as they say “yes” to
God’s call on their lives.
Prayer
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