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Discipleship Focus: Competency
- Competency: Being able to accomplish what one is called to do.
This is a
great chapter in order to study Jesus – especially in the beginning of His
ministry. We have three examples of
Jesus and humanity. All three examples
bring out a sense of challenge among human beings. But what is really important to note is that
in each place, Jesus is competent to do as God desires.
In the
first story, Jesus turns water into wine.
Notice the level of challenge that Jesus gives to even His own
mother. He tells her that His time has
not yet come. In other words, she does
not get to choose when He puts God’s power on display. Just because He has the power of God does not
mean that He is on her beck and call.
Jesus is not just competent enough to turn the water into wine, He is
competent enough to even stand up to His mother and make sure she knows that He
is submitting to the Father, not her.
In the
second story, we get to see Jesus clear the temple. In this story we see Jesus competent in
standing up to the community around Him.
In clearing the temple, He would no doubt make a name for Himself. He would no doubt make enemies. He would not doubt draw attention to Himself
and that attention would not be all that good.
Yet Jesus does not shy away from any of these things. He is competent enough to stand up for the
Father in spite of the consequences.
Finally,
we get to third story about trust. This
last story is easy to overlook, especially with how well known the other stories
are. But in this story we see a great
point with respect to competency. Jesus
does not put his trust into just anyone.
He pauses to consider who is trustworthy and who is not. This is such an important understanding in
life. We shouldn’t air our needs and
frustrations and desires and weaknesses to just anyone. Find people that are worthy of your trust who
will walk beside you in life and put your trust in them.
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