Being Too ...

He was perturbed.

More than upset, which can be an easily gained or lost emotion, on this day something deeper inside him was rumbling … perturbing, making his senses and sensibilities uneasy and hard to reconcile.

His friends became uneasy as well. Not because they knew what was eating at him and not because he was saying much. There is a transference of that kind of perturb from one person to the next without a word spoken … you’ve been there, having walked into a room and knew there was tension.

He became resolute in what must be done and began to ready himself for the task. A few of his friends tried talking him out of it and some of them remained silent because they had never seen this side of him. In either case, his friends who had long been accustomed to ‘this is just the way it is’ kind of living and thinking, weren’t yet qualified to understand the deep side of his trouble.

And so with every movement of his hands he became more perturbed, concentrating now on the task at hand he was past the point of reasonable reason and past the point of what was sensible. On that crisp morning, his sensibilities no longer in tact, the distance between his steps now widening and his heart racing with intention – tables were being flung everywhere, people were screaming in disbelief, running for safety and the money was scattered on the floor of the temple portico.


When it was all over, he stood there like a man stands when he has made a point, and dared anyone to challenge the new status quo.

Jesus was being too ….
… too radical
… too insistent on things holy
… too zealous
… too quick to make a judgment
… too violent
… too perturbed
… too unreasonable
… too Jesus.

We live in the same ‘this is just the way it is’ world Jesus’ disciples were living in. That kind of living, which is the old status quo, puts a think into people’s minds like a heavy wool veil covers a face; its heavy, hard to see through and suffocating.

Before the veil was ripped in the temple on the day of His great sacrifice, He took away the heavy wool veil covering His disciples faces that day in the temple. From that day forward none of them, save one, would ever be the same.

All because Jesus was being too …

Here's today’s question: ‘Could we be accused of being too …?’

Perhaps the smaller questions may be; 'Are our faces yet veiled with the old status quo of 'this is just the way it is'? 'Is it getting hard to see through the heaviness'? 'Are the plans, purposes and intentions of God in us suffocating'?


Find yourself being too ...


Dan
A Runner