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<P align=center><FONT color=#cc0066 size=7><STRONG>Disturbing Jesus!!</STRONG></FONT></P> <P align=center><EM><FONT color=#000033>“Lord, take it easy, please.<BR>Slow down. I can't catch up with you<BR>Can't find the courage to ignore convention.<BR>Break the mould.”<BR></FONT></EM> Eddie Askew</P> <P align=justify>We are people of habit. Would like to follow a pattern and routine without change. I like to shop for provisions from the same shop. Often on a particular day of the week. Take the same route everyday while driving to work. Sit on my 'reserved seat' for Sunday worship. Sing the same hymns. Listen to the same thoughts. If anything is changed or different we are disturbed. Familiarity, in this case, breeds comfort and security rather than contempt. We feel so comfortable that no Sunday message can stir us out of our complacency and insensitivity. </P> <P align=justify>But try following Jesus. It is a different ball game - an adventure of a different sort. He was challenged, hated, questioned and laughed at. People tried to push him around physically and figuratively. Without batting an eyelid, looking straight into their eyes, he walked out of their midst. He could do that because He had the moral courage that could make even the soldiers shrink back in awe.</P> <P align=justify>He challenged the people to re-examine themselves and to look at things with fresh eyes and not borrowed spectacles. </P> <P align=justify>He encouraged people to take risks. Peter was invited to walk on the water. He was okay as long as his eyes were on Jesus. He challenged the family of Lazarus to open the tomb where his dead body had been lying for four days. The disciples were told to go out preaching without a spare clothe or money in the pocket. Later He told the disciples who had never ventured out of their own country to go to all the world and make disciples. </P> <P align=justify>He challenged people to do the unthinkable. The rich man was told to sell all his possessions before following the Lord. The one who wanted to wait till the death of his parents before going after Jesus was told to let the others take care of them. He told the people to give more to those who are trying to snatch things from them and to do good to the enemies. </P> <P align=justify>He changed the way money was valued. The quantity did not impress him. He calculated everything in percentages, percentage of the total income. In His evaluation, Solomon's place was lower than that of the lilies of the valley. </P> <P align=justify>He was not impressed by the number of His followers. Even to his die-hard followers, he gave the option to leave.</P> <P align=justify>He was no person to grab power and stick on to it. He said His followers will do greater than what He did. At the end of His life on earth, He had a maximum of a hundred and twenty followers. But Peter brought in three thousand at his first preaching. He wanted his followers to reach their maximum potential and take over the work He was doing. He was a leader who made himself redundant in a way. </P> <P align=justify>Do you want to follow Jesus? Rather dare you follow Him? No easy-chair for you. No mansions on earth either. You sure will get rewards. But you have to earn it the hard way. Want to take the challenge!!!</P>
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