Recall:
Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: “Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You’ve concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. 26 Yes, Father, that’s the way you like to work.” Matthew 11:25-26 (The Message)
Jesus resumed talking to the people, but now tenderly. “The Father has given me all these things to do and say. This is a unique Father-Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge. No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does. But I’m not keeping it to myself; I’m ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen. Matthew 11:27 (The Message)
Reflect:
It has been a looong time since I have read the story of the plagues on Egypt--a wild story to be sure. I can't help but feeling sorry for the Egyptians though. They were punished for Pharaoh's hardness of heart. Or were they only experiencing the consequences of their own complicity in what was happening in Egypt?
Matthew 11 has some fantastic insights from Jesus. It is the hoe of one of my favorite passages--the "yoke is easy" line. Peterson takes some liberties, I noticed, in his paraphrase of this passage. I love verse 27--Jesus knows the father intimately and is willing to "go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen."
Respond:
I am ready to go over it line by line. I think. Well, at least I'm "willing to listen."
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