I love my human owner and his family. Over the last 20 years, I’ve developed a very special relationship with them all. We share a mutual bond and trust, even though we don’t always understand each other. For example, I never quite get why they all have to change their plumage every day. And why they disappear off for long periods of time, except at weekends and Bank Holidays. And why does my owner need to appear outside my window with his noisy grass cutting machine when the grass hasn’t done anything wrong in the first place?
It must have been a bit like that when the original twelve disciples joined forces with Jesus. Clearly they all formed a powerful bond and stayed together with Jesus even when they hadn’t got a clue about what was going on!
Just imagine it. At the very beginning, you’re invited to join the “Apostle Club.” You give up everything you know to follow and obey Jesus. This same Jesus who appears to be all powerful and indestructible. The Jesus who can miraculously heal people with a single touch or bring the dead back to life. The same Jesus whose wisdom and self-control can outwit the Teachers of the Law, the Pharisees, the Roman occupiers and just about everybody else. And yet despite all this, the leader that you have dutifully followed inexplicably submits Himself to human torment, torture and ultimately death. You will have watched events unfold in horror, unable to comprehend what’s going on. You feel devastated, crushed, even betrayed until out of the blue, Jesus suddenly reappears in human form having risen from the dead! And it seems that no sooner does He reappear that He disappears all over again. You and the others are left scratching your heads and trying to make sense of the situation when all of a sudden, a freak wind blows in from nowhere, and tongues of fire come down from the Heavens and touch you! Pentecost!
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