I don't know about you, but sometimes I'm not
very smart regarding relationships. There are times when I need to focus on
what I am doing just a little more, perhaps be a little more aware than I am.
Most likely all of us at sometime uses our time poorly and perhaps relate to
others in less than appreciated ways.
A friend, Tom, told me that recently they had
one of their young grand daughters visiting. She got a Barbie Doll and was
playing with it on the floor. He being a good grandfather, got down on the
floor with her and tried to show some interest in what she was doing. After a
few minutes she looked at him and said, “Grandpa, don't you have somewhere else
you can play?” Wow! That's pretty blunt, but she made it clear that she knew
what she intended to do and didn't want him interfering.
How do you help someone who doesn't want to be
helped? How do you share with someone who doesn't want your input? How do you
love someone who doesn't want to be loved? Jesus had that problem though he
understood exactly what people needed. Yet even he couldn't force them to want
or except his company, his teaching or his love.
Jesus understood this completely and warned his
followers in Luke 9:22, “The
Son of Man must suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders, the high
priests and the scribes. Then he must be killed, but on the third day he will
be raised.”
In Matthew
23:37 Jesus said, “O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have
been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen
gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling.”
--Russ Lawson
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