On the road with Jesus

Some think that an aspiring apprentice should read the gospels to discover how the disciples attempted to follow Jesus and then ‘do it better’.  Perhaps they would teach something like, ‘Look at these poor ill-informed guys who had a problem with who was greatest;’ or ‘who didn’t have enough faith to heal this poor boy’.  Some would think, ‘but we know better.  :<   I would like to suppose however that the disciples represent the real struggle an apprentice of Christ has with his own human nature and his own personal battle for faith.  Too quickly the early church, full of real folks with real issues, got bogged down with sin and competition - begging for the apostolic epistles to be written.  The Thessalonians had lazy folks. The Corinthians had confusion and sin of every sort.  The Galatians were quickly abandoning the gospel. There is much for the apprentice to learn on a narrow way in a dangerous world. 

Luke writes, not to super disciples flashing their all-knowing eyes at a silly world, but to fellow sinners clothed in the righteousness of Christ.  If anyone sticks out as a Super Man it is the eyewitness account of Jesus himself.  He teaches the kingdom way. He commands the waves.  He saves and heals. He is revealed on ‘the Mount’ in an amazing rending of the veil and out-spilling of the glory he has shared from eternity with the Father.  His face shone & flashed like lightning. His clothes glowed unearthly white. ‘He is the radiance of His glory, the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of his power.’ Heb1:3 He is revealed as the beloved Son of God, Son of Man determined to bear the sins of the world to the cross, to please His Father in heaven and to return to the right hand of the Majesty on high. 

 And we keep our eyes on Jesus while identifying with the disciples because we are so much like them. Can't wait until Sunday as we continue on the path of apprenticeship with the Master Craftsman.