Jesus begins to fill out the gaps in the disciples’ understanding. No need to get all flabbergasted. “Listen,” he clarifies, “the food I am talking about is not something that is bought or sold. You don’t eat it on a plate and you don’t need a table to serve it up. It’s a spiritual thing!” Jesus is in the zone. He is in a time and space where food doesn’t matter. He is focused on the prize—on the goal.
Professional athletes and seasoned warriors are familiar
with term “In the Zone.” It’s as if they
lose themselves in the competition or in the battle. They describe it as if they have been
raptured up in a dimension where reality is blurred by their complete
engagement in the activity at hand. In
Jesus’ case the “zone” is the mission he has taken upon himself. He knows the purpose. He is familiar with the mission. He is very much aware of the stakes. He knows the plan has been designed in the
highest levels of divinity. Nothing
matters more than completing the mission, winning the battle, and retrieving
the sequestered race from the clutches of the enemy.
Do I echo the words of Jesus when
referring to my purpose on earth? Do I
see my mission as clearly as he did?
Sometimes the thought as overwhelming!
How can I be so swallowed up in the things of God? Do I even know the task he has assigned
me? Am I consumed by my desire to complete
the mission? I am certainly challenged
by the scenario. I know I want more than
I have now! There has to be more! Perhaps there is a place where many sit and
bask in the glow that comes from above; but few are those that pursue the light
with a passion that consumes them until nothing is left but the evidence of
their impact on those who were changed by their God-enlightenment. I want that!
I want to learn to pursue the light and live out His will in me until it
consumes me.
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