encounters w/JESUS

Encountering Jesus...when was the last time that you remembered the moment that you encountered Jesus? The day that your life changed forever. The day that you realized that it was not about you. The day that your priorities took a 180. The day that His desires became your desires. The day that you knelt down and humbly took the cross and decided to become more like Jesus.

I'm sure if you're like most people in the world it's been awhile. You see we have this bad habit of only remembering Jesus when the crap hits the fan. Suddenly when we are up to our necks in our "mess", we remember Jesus' famous last words..."I will never leave you or forsake you." So what do we do, we start reminding Jesus of His promise to us. These are usually the encounters we remember with Jesus.

But what about the encounters you had with Him today, yesterday or last week? You know...on that ordinary day when nothing was hitting the fan and it was just another Monday, Wednesday, or Friday (or pick your favorite day). It's interesting how we don't think these ordinary encounters are as or more important then the crappy ones.

It's easy to have encounters w/Jesus when life dumps on you. We expect it at those crazy moments. The moral of the story...the lesson for the day. We expect Jesus to be compassionate, gracious, merciful, faithful, and forgiving. But what about those ordinary days? When in all honesty we live as if we don't need Him on those ordinary, average, mundane days.

For the last couple of weeks the Holy Spirit has been encouraging me to rediscover the encounters Jesus had with people throughout the Bible on ordinary days. You know the stories that we read over or totally skip because we think that they have no value. As I have begun to read these "ordinary" stories some might say "boring" encounters I have been discovering something about myself and Jesus. I'm discovering that it was in these ordinary days that Jesus made the greatest impression on the people He encountered. I'm learning that it was on those ordinary days that the people Jesus encountered had their greastest life lessons. It was on those ordinary days that people discover how far they were from Jesus and how desperate they needed Him.

So for the next several months I'll be reading through these ordinary encounters w/Jesus and sharing with you what Jesus was teaching in the encounters and what He is personally teaching me. At any time during this blog series please feel free to comment back and give your 2 cents.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a theologian...I have never claimed to be a theologian...I'm just a regular guy with a passion to learn more about Jesus. So whatever I blog about will be from a personal discovery and not a theological prespective.