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Friday, December 28, 2012

"My Time Is At Hand"

 
Matthew 26:18-19: And He said, Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is at hand, I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples. So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.
There is nothing that will be left to chance in the unfolding drama of redemption that would be accomplished within 24 hours. Jesus send the disciples out to find a "certain man." Not any man that they would bump into, but rather the very individual that God had prepared beforehand to do the will of God. This reminds me that we all have a "rendezvous with destiny" (yes, the phrase used in several speeches of Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan). Imagine how much we would accomplish if we really had that attitude each and every day.
There was a certain man who knew he had a strategic purpose in his life for that passover day. In Mark 14 and Luke 22 the disciples were given the clue thta the man would be carrying a pitcher of water, and that he would lead them to a house with an upper room. Two things--men do not carry pitchers of water as a rule, women do. Thus, it would be easy to spot the person doing a woman's job. Today, it would be most likely "look for the man wearing a dress." The location of the upper room was kept a secret until this point, probably to keep Satan from urging Judas to have Jesus arrested at that upper room. John 13-17 was given in that upper room, some of the most important teaching found in the Word of God (not to mention that we have The Lord's Supper instituted there). Jesus was in charge of all things, and these verses remind us that we can trust our sovereign God in all things. Jesus cares about details!

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