You Need People
There are people we need in our life – Check out the wording Mark 3:14 NKJV Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach – Notice that before Jesus sent them out to work (preach) He drew them in to be with him (relationship). I have made a decision in my life to let relationships organically lead to work/ production. Not the other way around. Never look at people as a means to an end, but as a relationship with an outcome!
I have been impacted by Leonard Sweets book called 11 – while the book is not totally my style it provoked me to thinking about who I need in my life! I need someone to challenge, counsel, correct, connect and comfort me. I have in my life today all those individuals – some of them wear more than one hat, but more than the hat they were they are my people, the people that God has placed to enable me to live the dream!
Jesus drew the disciples in but they didn’t understand right away what he was even talking about in the parables. Interesting, the masses didn’t have a clue.
“Declare unto us the parable…” (Mat. 13:36)
“declare unto us this parable” (Mat. 15:15)
“…the twelve asked of Him the parable” (Mk. 4:10)
“Know ye not this parable” (Mk. 4:13)
“…His disciples asked Him concerning the parable” (Mk. 7:17)
“And His disciples asked Him saying, what might this parable be?” (Lk. 8:9)
“Therefore speak I to them in parables; because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand” (Mat. 13:13)
“Then answered Peter and said unto him, DECLARE UNTO US this parable. And Jesus said, ‘Are ye also [like the multitudes] yet without understanding?’” (Mat. 15:15-16)
“And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?” (Mk. 4:13)
Christ had to explain all the parables to them!
Passage Mark 4:33-34:
33With many such parables [Jesus] spoke the Word to them, as they were able to hear and [a]to comprehend and understand.
34He did not tell them anything without a parable; but privately to His disciples ([b]those who were peculiarly His own) He explained everything [fully].
We have to help people out today to understand the true knowledge of God.