Seeking the Author 1st
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 the servant is 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?
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)
The thief 'tied to the wind' beside Jesus lived/died as an eternal metaphor for mankind. This un-named thief became Jesus' lowest common denominator, it is being just beside Him that matters. Just hang with Jesus, hold His hands, and bind them to Him.