It was the best time of my life, never before had I ever experienced such an experience. Walking with the man named Jesus, from Nazareth was something that I, nor anyone, had even dreamed of. I was walking with Christ. There is nothing else that I wanted to do but that. I am called by two names, either Jude (not the kissing one though) or Thaddeus, which I prefer because I don’t have to worry about the negative association with the other one. I remember one time we were together with another crowd and He, Jesus, was talking to us in parables, which he always did.
He told us a parable about the kingdom of heaven and compared it to a field in which a farmer sowed seeds and during the night the enemy came and sowed weeds. When they sprouted and grew so did the weeds. This forced the farmer to wait until both were up to maturity to prevent pulling up the roots of both the good wheat and bad weeds. They were to cut the weeds and burn them before they began harvesting the wheat, I thought to myself. “ah, interesting”
When the crowd left we, the disciples, asked Him to explain what he meant by that parable. He explained to us what it meant and that the field is the world, the weeds are evil people, the wheat are good people, the enemy that sows the seeds is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are the angels. So as the weeds are burned in the end so will the evil people be while the good wheat will be saved from the fiery furnace.
What a lesson, but I wondered why he always spoke to us in parables, it makes me reminisce on childhood and when my mom and dad would tell me stories of what happened when they were little and even when their parents were little. His parables are different than the stories though. We pressed on and we saw Jesus do great miracles following that day, even Jesus walking on water!.
Another day Jesus called the Pharisees out on their hypocrisy and it was harsh! He let it go on them and man were they offended. So we went to Jesus trying to let Him know that He did that and then responded with another parable, which we were used to at this point and kind of numb to. We asked him to explain it to us so that we could understand it and what did He do? He let it at us! He said “Are you still so dull?” Ouch!! Me, dull???? No way! I’ve been with Him for so long and listening to Him speak so much wisdom. How could I be dull? Wasn’t he sharpening us, all of us? Apparently we haven’t been getting it. He shook me pretty bad, but regardless, I will continue to follow Him, He really knows what He is doing and hasn’t gotten us into any trouble without getting us out of it and showing the right way.
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