I’m going to be perfectly honest here. Deep sigh, scratching my head – NOT another parable. Come on Jesus. We have a saying, “plain talk is easily understood.”
When I was in school we had this teacher, if you didn’t know how to spell a word she would say ‘look it up’. I got in sooo much trouble one time because I replied, “how am I supposed to look it up if I don’t know how to spell it?” Let’s take Pneumonia for example. The p is silent. I could have spent the rest of my life looking under the n’s in the dictionary and never found this word. I feel like this teacher didn’t teach me anything. Rather I was a nuisance and she was trying to get rid of me. This experience had a negative impact on how I view teachers.
How was your relationship with your parents? Especially your dad? Your teachers? Your pastor? The church you grew up in? Did the influencers in your life have a negative relationship with God? The tracks that lay behind us shape the tracks we lay in front of us. Based on your raisin’, how do you see God? Is he a blood thirsty master that just kills people? Depending on the ‘rose colored glasses’ you’ve been raised with, the parable in Matthew 25: 14-30 is how you might view your relationship with God. He’s hard, unapproachable. You feel guilty because you’ve wasted your God given talent and haven’t done a thing to further God’s kingdom? Maybe you are questioning, what talent? Perhaps you’re afraid of God? A dead beat dad? He’s an unjust ruler. An authoritarian whose only job it is to take what little you have and give it to someone else?
Luke 19: 11-31
Yet another parable. 🙄 Surface reads, I don’t do well with parables. The parable of the prodigal son just pisses me off. It is a beautiful story about God’s redeeming love. But I get so hung up on the eldest son that I miss the whole point of the story. I’m like, show the oldest son some love. That’s all he really wants. He’s worked his butt off for you. Who cares if he get’s it all in the future, show him some LOVE now! Sorry. I digress. Back to our stories at hand.
Did you know Jesus was a comedian? Upon telling this parable in Luke, Jesus most likely got a chuckle from the crowd. Maybe even a ‘damn straight’! (Jesus did preach to sinners.) Remember King Herod? The people hearing this parable knew about King Herod. He’s the one that wanted Jesus so badly that he had all boy babies under the age of 2 killed. When he dies, he had 2 sons. Herod Archelaus went to Rome to be confirmed by Caesar. The people didn’t want him and he had a lot of people killed that opposed him. He sowed fear and destruction in his wake. This parable could be a bio for Herod Archelaus.
Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a colt is a powerful statement informing the people. I am not Herod Archelaus. I am not King Herod. I am not the political leader that you are praying for that will over throw Rome. I come in peace. I am not a hard task master. My father God is not a hard master. Take off your glasses.
Mr. Scott (the author of the book) believes that Jesus is the third servant. Jesus is nothing like the other 2. He wants no part of the brutal treatment of his fellow man in order to get another talent for the master. Can you see the similarities between Jesus’s treatment and the treatment of the third servant?
Are you ready to take off your glasses and view Jesus and God in a whole new light?
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