JESUS: THE MOST WANTED
(John11:45-57)
The Jewish Passover is close at
hand. The Chief Priests and the Pharisees gathered for a meeting. The agenda
was: What are we to do to Jesus? Their fear was: "If we allow Him to go on
like this, everyone will believe in Him and the Jews will come and destroy our
holy place and our nation"
As the deliberations continued,
an intervention came from the high priest that year, Caiaphas by name, who
according to the scriptures was speaking prophetically even without knowing.
His intervention was: ...it is
expedient for one man to die for the people than for the people to perish"
Jesus became the most wanted and
never walked about openly again among the Jews. The people were looking for
Jesus. To make the search for Jesus more serious and intensified, the authorities
gave an order that if anyone knew His whereabouts, he should let them know.
There must be a reward attached for one who will help them catch Jesus. Little
wonder why Judas took the decision to betray Jesus for their arrest.
Why is Jesus wanted in our world
today? A lot of people today congregate in the name of Jesus. What is their
agenda about Jesus? Some gather to fight Christ and His Church. Some kill
Christ. Some want to arrest the word of God and stop us from preaching Christ.
Some want to protect political, social or cultural interest and sacrifice
Jesus. These and many other way are the wrong ways of gathering in the name of
God.
Why should we want Christ? We
should want Christ to save us and the whole world. This period we are
appreciating His self-donation that made it possible for us all not to be lost.
Jesus was wrongly wanted by the
Chief Priests and Pharisees. Let us rightly want Jesus to have His way in our
lives, lets us live our lives like those who cannot do without Jesus. Let us
embrace Jesus as the only good thing that the world needs without which life on
earth will be meaningless. Let's pray
that the scattered children of God all over the world may be gathered to seek
and find God.
LET US PRAY
We want You and need you every
hour Oh Jesus. Let Your holy presence
give us the peace, joy and salvation we need. May we not get tired of You. Help
us dear Lord to find You when we need You. Grant these through Christ our Lord.
Amen
God bless your Saturday (5th Week
of Lent)
Rev Julian O Ekeh
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