This week at Crossings the gospel story portrayed a Jesus who seemed a little "off." His responses to people were more short than compassionate. We struggled with this text. Why is Jesus like this? Does he have something else to teach about these individuals? Is there a reason he is staying arms reach?
Jason, the new intern at DLC, brought an interesting idea forward. Maybe Jesus was having a bad day....
Did Jesus have bad days?
Does God have bad days?
Or does Jesus who is fully God and fully human experience his humanity like the rest of us and have moments where he is just fed up with people?
In his message, Jason spoke a word of comfort to us, that yes, in his humanity Jesus experienced being "off" and "not being in the mood." So that when we also face inevitable bad days, we can take comfort in knowing that God is with us in them.
But this has made me think about how God might feel watching mankind hurt the earth and hurt each other. Are there days that God just doesn't want to deal?
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