Day #10 - Jesus' Method: making time

Day 10

Jesus’ Method: making time

Read: Luke 8:40-49

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To the disciples it was insignificant, “what do you mean who touched me? We’re in a crowd – yes?” Someone in the crowds had “touched” Jesus. Jesus was in the middle of an emergency, the daughter of a very important person lay dying.   This was no time to muck around talking to people.  Yet Jesus, as he so often did, stopped and took the time to encourage one woman in her act of faith.

This Jesus’ story is packed with learning examples of his methods, let’s look at just one. Despite being under pressure to respond to multiple human needs Jesus took time with each one.  The woman-in-the-crowd mattered to him, although on an urgent mission, he made time to spend with her.  For us she would have been so easy to miss, but not for Jesus.

Repeatedly in the accounts of Jesus we read of his people-time priorities, his sensitivities toward others. Jesus ordered his priorities differently to many others. People matter to Jesus, he neither gets distracted from his overall mission, nor allows people to become a secondary interest. An essential of his mission achievement method is simply, attentiveness to the needs of those around him.   For others a timid and deferring woman could easily be missed, a beggar making a racket ignored, some kids wanting attention bypassed – but with Jesus none slip below his radar.  Jesus makes time for “background-people” in the foreground of his mission-life.

Ponder Point (reflect)

• As he responds to the multitudes of the earth Jesus takes time with people as individuals

Consider (respond)

• Loving people is spelt T-I-M-E. Time for them, time with them.