Desperate

Jesus is a hard guy to understand. But in spite of that there are times when I get this feeling that I have Him all figured out. This last week I got that "got ya figured" feeling as I read about Him healing the official's son.

I noticed that Jesus did not respond at all like I would have expected. You see, when this official says please heal my son, I would have expected immediate compassion. It did not happen. I know that there must be more to that than meets the eye.

The interesting thing to me in this is that after Jesus says, "You guys will just never believe until you see a miracle." The official responds by saying, (my interpretation) "This is not about belief, this is about my son's life." It is almost like the official is trying let Jesus know that he has run out of options, that he is desperate.

Because of this I thought, Aha! Jesus responds when people get desperate. I started thinking of all the times when desperate people approached Jesus and got what they were asking for. Maybe I have this guy figured out after all. If we can only get desperate enough, Jesus will act in our lives! I was thinking about a title for a book about desperate people meeting Jesus, "Jesus Lives on a Dead End Street." I thought that would be a great title. It would have been too, if only I had not continued reading.