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“Where is your head at?”
It was a fair question.
My parents and I were having a difficult discussion over my grades my first semester of college.
I had just revealed my grades which consisted of a B- and 5 C’s
Oh boy…where was my head at that semester?
New friends?
a breakup?
sports?
intramurals?
Any of those answers might have been true through out that semester.
I had not focused the way I should have.
I had treated my first semester of college with the same effort I had put into in high school.
That effort had always gotten me mostly A’s and a few B’s, but college was a different ballgame altogether.
In order to change the course of the trajectory I was heading into, i was going to need to make some changes in priorities.
“Where was my head at?”
It wasn’t where it should have been, that is for sure.
I wonder if Jesus, ever asked the disciples, or maybe some of them individually, “Where is your head at?”
Today we are going to look at some examples of the disciples journey and apply their lessons to our present.
Body:
Those with your Bible’s with you please turn to
Matthew 8:
Matthew 8:23
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Jesus must have had quite the day, to be able to sleep through a storm while in a boat.
He has had a full day.
But can you put yourself in the shoes of the disciples?
They are bailing water as if their lives depended on it.
They are in the center of a great storm.
Mrs. White comments in desire of ages:
“Absorbed in their efforts to save themselves, they had forgotten that Jesus was on board.”
Think about that for a second:
obviously they are in quite a predicament, what was their mistake?
They were trying to rely on their own experience on the sea.
As the water crashed in over the boat…they just tried bailing faster.
Eventually they realized their efforts were in vain, and they do what we all do.
They cried out for Jesus.
Desire of Ages adds that those cries weren’t immediately heard.
These men, these disciples, these the greatest followers of Christ…were calling out into the night for Jesus.
Of course where was Jesus?
He was asleep!
Matthew 8:25
Their fear in the time of danger revealed their unbelief.
In their efforts to save themselves, they forgot Jesus; and it was only when, in despair of self-dependence, they turned to Him that He could give them help.
Their fear in the time of danger revealed their unbelief.
In their efforts to save themselves, they forgot Jesus; and it was only when, in despair of self-dependence, they turned to Him that He could give them help.
If Jesus had asked: Where is your head at?.....Their minds were clouded by fear and anxiety.
Jesus was teaching them to trust him above themselves.
He was teaching them, he was there and always would be, he was teaching them reasons for bravery knowing they had the master with them.
Let the Children come to me
Another, “where is your head at?” moment is found in a short blurb in .
Mark 10:
Why do you think the disciples rubuked those mothers, for bringing their children to Jesus? (wait for answers).
It was because they thought the children as not important enough, and to a degree the mothers.
It wasn’t the children or the mothers, Jesus was displeased with.
It was the disciples.
(Have a child read the rest of the passage)
Now, mothers who are here, for that matter, grandmothers, and mothers to be: I want you to hear this encouragement as quoted in desire of ages.
Mark 10
“Let mothers come to Jesus with their perplexities.
They will find grace sufficient to aid them in the management of their children.
The gates are open for every mother who would lay her burdens at the Saviour’s feet.”
Jesus was making a point to everyone, the disciples included…children and mothers should never be blocked when they need a one on one with the savior.
The same Jesus willing to give a healing touch to any child, offers that same relief to overwelmed mothers who need Jesus’s peace.
Again though, say Jesus asks the disciples, “Where is your head at?” Prideful thoughts, crowing Jesus king against his will, arrogance.
Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany
Jesus didn’t have to ask the question one particular instance, he knew where his disciple Judas’s head was at.
John12:
Jesus had referred to his coming death several times to the disciples many times, but they either had not believed or had not listened, as the time was quickly approaching.
One person Jesus had blessed, whose life had been resurrected every bit as much as her brother Lazarus, was Mary.
Mary had listened to Jesus warnings of what was to come, and she sought show him honor and blessing.
Jesus had not asked for much, but as this time was approaching, it was very much on His mind.
Mary sought to give her savior and healer, a great blessing.
This I believe is where Jesus desired his disciples minds to be at.
This was not the case.
John 12:4-6
Judas, as the treasurer of the group, was already being used for the devil’s purposes.
Judas criticism against Mary, and to a degree at Jesus, was deceitfully coming from a moral vantage point.
The very thing he was criticizing of he was guilty of.
Secretly, he resented how much of their treasury bag was used on helping the poor.
He had stolen and stashed portions of it for his own use.
“Judas had a high opinion of his own executive ability.
As a financier he thought himself greatly superior to his fellow disciples, and he had led them to regard him in the same light.
He had gained their confidence, and had a strong influence over them.
His professed sympathy for the poor deceived them, and his artful insinuation caused them to look distrustfully upon Mary’s devotion.
The murmur passed round the table, “To what purpose is this waste?
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”
Mary heard the words of criticism.
Her heart trembled within her.
She feared that her sister would reproach her for extravagance.
The Master, too, might think her improvident.
Without apology or excuse she was about to shrink away, when the voice of her Lord was heard, “Let her alone; why trouble ye her?”
He saw that she was embarrassed and distressed.
He knew that in this act of service she had expressed her gratitude for the forgiveness of her sins, and He brought relief to her mind.
Lifting His voice above the murmur of criticism, He said, “She hath wrought a good work on Me.
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but Me ye have not always.
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint My body to the burying.”
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Mary’s act was a stark contrast with Judas.
Her mind was on her saviour.
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