First, I apologize for the silence on the devotions the past couple of days. I write these in advance and use a service to auto-send them. I thought I wrote them for Friday through Tuesday and loaded, but they are gone. So either I imagined it, or there was computer/operator error. But here we go!
Luke 10:16 Jesus said: Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.
Jesus gave a lot of power to his disciples. Having lots of power can sound like a good thing, but it often isn't. It often means a lot more responsibility and actually being constrained a whole lot more. It's easy to say "If it were up to me, I'd do it differently" than it is to actually do it differently and deal with all the consequences, foreseen and unforeseen. I've gotten fairly obsessed with the "Game of Thrones" books and TV series recently and I can't help but remember King Robert saying, "I thought being king meant I would get to do whatever I want all the time..." He found it wasn't really that way.
So Jesus has given us lots of power... whoever listens to us as we proclaim the gospel listens to Jesus. And whoever rejects the gospel message we share is rejecting Jesus and the One who sent Jesus. Sounds like a lot of power. But what a responsibility! We need to proclaim the gospel and share the good news of God in such a way that people can hear it. We need to show with our whole lives the love that God intends for the whole world. Now that's a lot of responsibility.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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