Thoughts for Life: THE THOMAS ANOINTING: Prayer Note # 45

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

THE THOMAS ANOINTING: Prayer Note # 45

“One day I discovered that the disciples asked Jesus a lot of questions when they didn’t understand things. Sometimes the questions even seemed a little irreverent, implying that His teaching skills weren’t all that great. They would ask about His parables and question some of His difficult sayings. Oh, they couched their words in nice language calling Him ‘Master’ and such, but you know as well as I that they were really saying, ‘What in the world are you talking about?’

On (one) occasion Christ was waxing eloquent about the disciples not being troubled because there were lots of houses where His Father lived. He was going to go there, build a few more for them, then come back and take them there. And of course, they knew the way to this place…(see John 14:1-4). About this time Thomas—thank God for Thomas—said what all of them were thinking: ‘Time out, Jesus. We don’t have the foggiest idea what You’re talking about. We don’t even know where You’re going, let alone how to get there.’ I’m sure Christ’s answer really helped, “I’m the way, You go through Me.” I don’t think the disciples understood a lot of what Jesus said until later.

As I thought about this subject of travail, I decided to allow some of the nagging questions I had buried to go ahead and surface: If travailing intercession really helps get people saved why is it so hard to do and why does it happen so seldom and why do only a few do it and why does it have to be so loud and strange and why didn’t You say more about what it is and how to do it?

That’s lousy English, but it’s a great question!”