Something that obviously changed when I was led to the Lord last summer was who my ultimate role model was. It was encouraging, to have a mentor who always had the answer, even if it wasn’t the easy one. While it is of great comfort to know I will always have someone to learn from, it is also the most difficult aspect of being a Christian.
You see, it’s quite easy to follow what the Bible says when you agree with it or when the odds are in your favor. But modeling myself after Jesus is much more difficult when what He wants is the exact opposite of what I want.
Matthew 14 verses 13-14 talks about how Jesus deals with his grief about John the Baptist’s beheading. It says, “When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.”
Jesus wanted to retreat to a solitary place to be alone with his thoughts. When the crowds followed him, instead of being agitated and angry, he freaking healed their sick and loved them unconditionally! This is definitely a good thing to remember when I’m feeling like lashing out my thirty heads at everyone who so much as blinks at me the wrong way. Not only did He take the high road, he paved it and made it sparkle like gold. That’s a treasure worth keeping.
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