I Am So Slow to Believe
21 But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. 22 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, 23 and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 24 Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.” 25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Most of the time I am so slow to believe. With my head, I understand that Jesus is the central figure of History. Yet, it is hard to maintain that he is the central figure of my daily realities. I am perpetually putting new and inferior things in the place that only Jesus can hold. I place approval from others at the center of my life. I place my emotional state of mind at the center of my life. I place the validation of my ministry in the center of my life. I even place my Knowledge of Christ, rather than Christ himself at the center of my life. Yet there is nothing strong enough to fill the place in my life that is intend for God alone.
No created thing can ever fill the role that is intended for the Creator alone.
Is it not true that being a fallen creature hinders our undivided attention towards Him? Am I wrong to think that we are incapable of keeping Christ at the center of our lives without God’s intervention first? For me, the overwhelming reality of my inability forces me to rely more and more on God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
In the verse quoted above I see Jesus (God) addressing them and coming to them. Despite all that they had witnessed they were still “foolish” and incapable by their own abilities to grasp the truth. It took Godly intervention for them to see the light and even after this I’m sure they had many moments of doubt or confusion.
Praise the Lord for Grace!
Posted by Anthony Frolio on Thursday, Mar. 20, 2008.