Jesus' lowest common denominator
As Christianity aged, Christ's believers learned to serve Him with activity, thus missing His attention. Clearly Jesus owns our hands, or they are not His own?
Jesus 'owns' the hands of many a believer, but they still own their heart. (Michael Cartwright) Blinded, they do not 'stop'. Remember Martha and Mary, Martha sought to serve, Mary chose to sit?
"It is easy to forget who is the servant and who is to be served. (Max Lucado)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. (John 1:1-2)
I want to know The Word, not just His words but He who wrote them.
I want to know the producer of His Words, and not just His product.
A product cannot challenge its producer. We study, even question the Words He wrote, and have missed too much of engaging Him.
Such is He who stills wild storms, casts demons into pigs, raises the dead, and then writes about these exact events. What kind of man is He?
Let's return to the joy of 'Be still and know that I am God' (Psalm 46:10). The knowledge of Jesus echoes through the simplicity of faith. It is in stopping we hear and recognize His voice.
As we saw and I’ll say it briefly again, in our society, in churches, there are many who respect Jesus, who look to Him as a significant and interesting figure of history, who see Him as a good moral teacher, but all of this is not the same as knowing Him and worshiping Him as Savior and King. (John Murray 11/1/26)
The thief 'tied to the wind' beside Jesus lived/died as an eternal metaphor for mankind with Jesus. This un-named thief became Jesus' lowest common denominator, it is being just beside Him that matters. Just hang with Jesus, hold His hand.
PS - And, when we know Him we too have met our Father.