To be or not to be – part 1
Most of us have experienced in one way or another being present at the site of a major event and still missing it.
- Being in a baseball game and missing the most impressive play of the game while buying soft drinks.
- Missing when our kids said their first words or took their first steps.
Today’s lifestyle leads us to increasingly lose the major events that occur around us. But even sadder is being with Jesus without enjoying the great things that He has for us every day.
Being with a person without enjoying his presence is like not being with that person at all. It’s like being next to a great personality. If you were not able to share with this person, you were just at his side, but we were not with him. The same happens with Jesus.
We can mention some biblical characters that had this experience:
The Apostles
They spent more than three years with Jesus, listening to his teachings, and seeing his miracles, but were not able to fully understand the great going on before their own eyes. It was not until the resurrection, and even until Pentecost, when they were able to fully understand.
The disciples of Emmaus
Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles] from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” …When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. – Luke 24:13-31
These disciples were so focused in the negative things that were happening that they were not able to experience the event that was being revealed before their eyes.
The religious leaders
These had the Law and the Prophets. They had listened to witnesses. Everything was ready for them to get what they were waiting for (the messiah), but they were not able to see God’s promises being fulfilled.
The men traveling with Saul
The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. – Acts 9:7
The spiritual blindness of these men did not allowed them to see the big event was happening before their eyes.
In the second part of this teaching we will see some cases of biblical characters who knew how to seize the moment they spent with Jesus.
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