Discipleship - No Thanks! (cont.)

I’d hoped that discipleship was about my preferences, my natural agilities and gifts.  But apparently not; it is, they say, about our character and especially it in its natural messed up state.  It is about those things I can’t see - looking out from these eyes.  It is about things I consider normal, but apparently not God.  It is about things that I don’t wish to address nor frankly see the necessity of addressing but apparently God does.  It is about things that irk others but that I barely notice much less care about.  And I get this sneaking and uncomfortable suspicion that the deeper the issue the stronger the reproof required to dislodge it.  “Get behind me Satan.” – That sort of thing.

It seems, and I know that it appears I am making a case for discipleship but I am only commenting – not endorsing, Jesus did his discipleship by example primarily. You had to be around him to see it and therefore get it.  But it appears he had another method.  He would speak direct to attitudes and misconceptions.  The disciples, poor souls, heard direct and strong.  He would rebuke them in front of each other. He would call a ‘devil’ a devil and worldliness for what it was.  No subtle amelioration here.  Glad I wasn’t there.  Miracles are one thing – public rebukes another. 
Discipleship - no thanks!

Simon McIntyre © 2009

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