“The RoseBouquet”

I’ve never noticed this before, but immediately in the next chapter, Jesus’ prayer for more laborers in the harvest is answered as He calls His own disciples together and gives them authority to drive out evil spirits and sickness. All twelve are named, and the rest of the chapter is Jesus’ job orientation or training session.

Because of space restraints we’ll study it in short sections. Today we’ll look at the authority or job assignment given, and who the new workers are.

Jesus gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to cure every kind of disease and sickness. That was the job description, and what a job! Can you see yourself doing this kind of work?

It’s not a mere-______ (fill in yours) job. This involves driving out evil, and healing people, doing a lot of good, meaningful work. Nor would it be dull.

Jesus had twelve close followers by this time, so He recruited them all to train and do this work. They are named; Simon (also called Peter), his brother Andrew, James and John, sons of Zebedee, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew, James, son of Alpheaus, and Thaddaeus, Simon the zealot, and Judas Iscariot.

See how they are paired off to work together. No one has to tackle the job alone when they are sent off to different towns and villages.

What shall we learn for ourselves from this? Setting aside any self-analysis we’ve done of ourselves as workers or followers of Jesus before, are we available for this kind of assignment? Jesus probably will train us for such ministry-type of work too, if we but agree to His appeal for workers. Are we willing to work in partnership with someone else? Someone like a brother or sister?

PRAYER: Yes, Lord, I would be willing to work for You. I am nervous about the job, though, it looks rather big. Nor am I sure one of my natural sisters would work with me, but I guess You know whom to pair up.

+++++Jesus is my King+++++Jesus is my King+++++

Blessings on you Today!
Ruth Marlene Friesen

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