Taken for Granted....

Do you remember reading in Matthew, where Jesus is at the home of Simon the Leper, and "the woman" brings an alabaster jar of sweet smelling perfumes and she breaks the jar and proceeds to pour this over our Saviors head and on His feet.  And the disciples are indignant over this extreme act of love and devotion to the One who is willing to give of Himself in such an amazing and complete way, so that we might have eternal life with Him in heaven.  She wasn't taking our Lord for granted, but the disciple may have been...they were proclaiming that this ointment could have been sold for a fair sum of money and then that money given to the poor...and what was Jesus's response?  Leave her be!  The poor you will have with you always, but not Me.

Then they all go thru the last supper and Jesus's heart must have been so incredibly sad over what was about to take place...can you imagine thinking that the people who are surrounding you are good and loyal people only to find out that one...all it takes is one...is betraying Him...how terribly sad for Jesus...

What a night for Jesus, so filled with sadness...it is painful to even consider...

Then at the end of their dinner, and they had gone to the Mount of Olives and there He has to deal with Peter...who is saying to Jesus I will never deny You...and yet Peter does deny Christ, in fact he denies Christ three times.  Can you imagine the sadness that Jesus felt over this?  Or how about the feelings that this generated in Peter?  Peter was such a rock!

Then Jesus goes to pray and He takes three of the disciples with Him to watch and pray with Him...they fall asleep...How desperately sad was this situation for Jesus to have to bare...But Jesus is going to be going to the Father, and He knows this...but did He also know the pain and suffering He would also have to deal with before He got to the Father?

I have so many questions to ask when I finally get their...do you?

I titled this "Taken for Granted," do you think there were ever moments of ingratitude felt by Jesus?  I wonder...I especially wonder how there couldn't be.  He did everything for us and what do we do for Him?
We doubt Him, we take Him for granted, we ignore His pleas for our obedience.

Do you believe the Bible?  I mean do you really believe the Bible....I would really like you all to think about this and I will continue on this tomorrow...