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The Answer of Obedience

Updated: Jul 23

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Many times, I’ve called up a friend of mine asking her for advice. I have even had to ask her sometimes the question of “What should I say?” She has always seemed to know what to tell me at those times when I have needed it. Thankfully God has blessed me with a great friend and a friend who can help me when I need it.


In Mark 11:1-6 we read a story about Jesus, His disciples, and the task He needed them to do and what they were to say. The story is Jesus told His disciples to go to a nearby village, and they would see a colt tied up. He told them they were to untie the colt and to bring it back to him, and if anyone would ask them as to why they were doing it they were to say that the Lord had need of it and would immediately send it back to them. The disciples did as Jesus asked and went to the nearby city, and as Jesus had said they saw a colt tied up. They went and untied it and some of the people watching them asked why they were doing that, also just as Jesus had said. In total obedience, they answered as Jesus had told them, and they gave them permission and brought the colt back to Jesus. This colt had never been sat upon until Jesus who rode it into the town as the people cried out “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; blessed is the coming kingdom of our Father David; Hosanna in the highest!” What these people were saying is what is written in Zechariah 9:9 which says “Rejoice greatly O daughter, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold your King is coming to you, He is just and endowed with salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”


This story represents to us that obedience is key. The disciples were told to do something that would capture the attention of others- others who would have something to say. Others who in a sense could have represented opposition to them against what they were sent to do. These disciples were told in advance by Jesus what they would possibly encounter, and He gave them the solution- the answer. This answer proved to give them favor with those people in that there was no problem with them taking the colt. That does not mean that those people understood why the disciples and Jesus needed that colt, but they did give them the permission they needed. In this situation, the disciples could have become arrogant with those asking by saying something like: “Listen, Jesus told us that He needed this colt and were taking it- end of story” but they didn’t. They did it how Jesus had instructed and because of their obedience in the end Jesus was glorified as it had been written about years ago in the book of Zechariah.


Each thing we do in life should ultimately be to the glory of God- each action and each word spoken by us. There also will be those times when God will ask us to do something that could have the potential to cause others to ask, "Why are you doing this?" Those times may come; however, God will never ask us to do something without giving us all we need- including instructions and the words to speak. He will always give us the answer we need to say to those that may question. If we do things exactly as God has instructed and say exactly what He has told us to say we will always come out how we're supposed to and in the end, God himself will be glorified- just as He was in this story.


From Gardens of Splendor by Gina Burns



 
 
 

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