I remember a crazy sequence from the movie Happy Gilmore.
Happy just finished his round of golf and was relaxing at the clubhouse.
Shooter McGavin came up and started to talk to him in a negative way.
Shooter eventually made a comment that he was going to beat Happy.
Gilmore responded with breaking the glass bottle, point the broken glass bottle at Shooter and saying, “Let make something of this.”
A shocked Shooter responded in fear saying, “I was talking about on the golf course!”
Shooter felt threaten.
In our life do we ever feel threatened?
Jesus faced this all the time.
In John 11:8-9 this happens with Jesus…
“But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews tried to stone you and yet you are going back there?”
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world’s light. It is when he walks by night that he stumbles.”Those around Jesus saw it would be dangerous for Jesus and them to go there and tried to stop this from happening.
Jesus told them basically, no worries.
He explains how a man won’t stumble as much in the day and they are doing the will of the Lord.
We all stumble, but we all don’t have Jesus to rely on when we stumble.
We can prevent ourselves from stumbling sometimes, but other times we don’t.
We all stumble, fall short but often our lives aren’t threatened by people or by people against our faith.
We might disagree, but we might never be or feel threatened.
Jesus is someone worth standing up for with everything he has done for us and much we don’t even know.
Shooter was threatened in a way he never imagined.
Following Jesus might result in being threatened in our faith especially when we go outside the US.
How would you feel if your life would be threatened, would it change what you believe or do not believe?
Have a great day!
