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Discipleship Focus: Capacity
- Capacity asks whether or not the person has the time in their life to obey God.
This is a
great chapter to study the idea of capacity.
We’ll take four looks, but the reality is that there are so many more
perspectives in this chapter.
First,
let’s look at Mary. She blesses Jesus
with an incredible anointing. But let’s
stop for a moment. Jesus is a man that
she’s grown to love. Jesus also just
raised her brother from the dead. Why
wouldn’t she celebrate His presence? She
sees her opportunity to glorify the Lord and she takes advantage of it. That’s capacity.
Of
course, we then have a look at Jesus, who also has capacity. He receives Mary’s sacrifice. He lovingly chastens Judas’ rebuff of
Mary. He welcomes the questions of the
Greeks, who themselves have the capacitance to see God and follow Him. He teaches an unpopular teaching that leads
to many of His followers walking away (again).
Jesus has what it takes to do the will of God. He doesn’t always get the results for which
we might think He deserves. But He has
the capacity to obey.
Of course
we have Judas. Here is a man who just doesn’t
have the capacity. My hope and prayer is
that He finds forgiveness. But the
reality is that he just doesn’t have the capacity to obey. He is unable to accept Mary’s sacrifice for
her Lord.
Finally,
we have the rest of the disciples. At
the triumphal entry, they just don’t get it.
But here’s the cool perspective on this.
They don’t get it while it is happening, but they do get it
eventually. After the resurrection, they
do understand it! Therefore, they do
have the capacity to understand, just not in this particular moment. But that is so true about all of us. None of us are always prepared to act and
understand in our full capacity.
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