Thursday, June 26, 2008

Was Jesus ever confused??

A unique thought occurred to me today while I was taking a shower.... (Which, by the way, is one of the best places to go if you need to think -- second only to the toilet, IMHO...) Anyway, I was thinking about something I had talked to one of my campers about earlier today, about God being able to sympathize with us in every situation because he was here. He was human. But then this thought just kinda jumped at me: Has God ever experienced confusion? ......Was Jesus ever confused? Because that's definitely not the picture you get of Jesus from reading the gospels -- even though people sometimes had a hard time understanding his motives or reasoning for things he did (like when he decided to wait before visiting Lazarus when he knew he was sick), he always had motives. He always knew exactly what he was doing. ....Or did he?

I don't know why this stuck with me, but it just made me curious. I don't know if you know the song "I have been there" by Mark Schultz (it's a good song), but this made me think of that. When we're confused and we call out to God out of the depths of our confusion, does he understand that?

Which makes me think even more, because when you get down to it, what is confusion? Isn't it the inability to discern between the right path and the wrong path? Or at least usually we use it in that context.... But weren't we given the ability to discern between right and wrong when Adam and Eve ate the fruit in the garden?

Some good questions... And I'm afraid I don't have answers... Just more confusion, ha. :-) Maybe I need to take another shower??? ;-)

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