The rabbi talking To Jesus~
This morning Jesus Had talked to his father about the rabbi, and what his dad desired that the rabbi should know.
"Son, the rabbi will be teaching you again, next semester. So, just glorified my name without telling him precisely who you are. Yet, he will come to know the truth."
The rabbi was counting the minutes: till the class would end. All the students were a bit surprised when the bell sounded that signified the ending of class; for the rabbi gave a loud stirring cry: "Yes!" Then embarassingly said, "Ok. class. Have a great weekend."
Cherishing the long-awaited moment to be alone with Jesus, the rabbi started: "So, Jesus, I first want to ask you, Where is Mary? Her exuberance is very much missed."
"She just isn’t quite feeling herself. She’ll be back Monday, though."
"Oh, so you talked to her?"
"No, rabbi. I just know there things. Let’s just say that’s it’s God’s intuition." Jesus then smiled.
"Well, good. Next week will be her last week before she graduates. I understand that she would like to teach in a Yeshiva. A few years ago I would have said: impossible. But that was before I met Mary. Ah, nothing gets in her way, when she wants something, huh?"
"Well, rabbi: almost nothing." Jesus chucked.
"Good. I know that we’ll be hearing a lot from her in the future. So, Jesus, what I wanted to talk to you about is…ah, let me first say this…you are the most amazing young man that I have been gifted to encountered. You have made the Scriptures come fully alive, again, to me. It’s like I was blind before, and now I see. At the age of 15, you speak like a master. Your profundity dazzles me. And you speak to God like a child speaking to a father, in the most intimate loving manner. It’s like you personally know God; or as you always call him father or abba.
"And Jesus, you are such a miralce: that is the only explanation as to why healings in the town have become abundantly centered about you.
"Yet, I’m sure that you know people love gossip. And it surely has spread around town these last few years when God has been working, mightily, through you. And that’s why you are still thought as a normal country boy. Very few thinks that God’s miracles are done because of you; because people have been told only the most saintly people will God work his mighty works through.
"To put it delicately, they’re told that God doesn’t work through children or boys whose birthparents are in question. Ah, there’s no question about your mother, Jesus. People just wonder about your real father. I’m sorry for rambling on…"
Jesus smiled, thinking, "I really like David. I’m bless to know him, huh dad?"
"Yes, son. And you know me: only the best for my son."
"Thanks again, dad."
"Jesus, I greatly sense that God will be using you in ways that will be greater than the ways in which he used his greatest prophets. I can almost sense that you will start a revolution in this country."
He saw Jesus gazing into his soul. then Jesus smiled.
"Jesus. I hope to join in that revolution. Um. I don’t want to embarass you, by going on and on. Boy, you must be wondering about me, about how I’m flustering and all."
"Jesus knew that the rabbi didn’t quite know how to asked the question that was most on his mind. So Jesus said,
"Rabbi, you want to know what I meant when I was talking about eternal life, when that child rose, again?"
The stunned rabbi shook his head up and down.
"Rabbi, it has been hidden from even the most learned scholars in Israel: that God offers eternal life to all of his children. But, it is clearly written in Scripture. The following passages, of which there are many: speak of living eternally with my father:
‘And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted domestic animal together; and a little child shall lead them.’ Or another eternal passage: ‘And many people shallcome and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us His ways and that we may walk in His paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law and instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.’
"My father raised that daughter of the pharisee the other day: to glorify his name. And he wanted me to speak in front of all those people who had gathered at the synagogue where she was laying. What her rising signified was this: just as she died and risen to a new life, so can’t everyone live eternally, if they have the heart of a child; if they keep my commandments to love God: with all of your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself: These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets."
The rabbi was trying to grasp and absorb all that Jesus was saying. Everything that Jesus had said had led him to believe what he had been pondering on. He wanted to desperately ask Jesus one more question. Yet, he again watched Jesus gazed into his soul.
Jesus than said, "Rabbi, my father has instructed me to tell you this: you are not far from the kingdom of God. One day you will come to know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Jesus then laid his hand on the rabbi’s shoulder, saying, "My father is very proud to call you his son. And he longs to meet you and celebrate in his kingdom, one day."
The rabbi felt electricity permeate his body. He felt a new power with in him. He felt love for Jesus…a love that he never experience before; and his eyes played tricks on him, as he saw Jesus being surrounded by a dazzling light.
Jesus said to the gaping rabbi, "I think that I need to see Mary, now. May my father continue to do his great work in you, that he has started in you."
This was such a heartwarming entry. As I read this chapter and reading of the electricity that permeated inside the Rabbi I can feel the spirit of the Lord with in me to. The Rabbi is so fortunite to know Jesus and then learning of the miracles that will soon come around him
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I like this chapter, too and the Word of God you quoted somehow comea alive for me. “And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted domestic animal together; and a little child shall lead them……..” I am waiting to find out what Jesus is going to say to Mary. 🙂
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Profundity, there really is such a word! *lol* Oh, and just so you know! I’m not proof reading anymore until we can come to terms with some Grants or Franklins. *lol*
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