Today, I am reading and commenting on  Luke 6-7.

I was struggling with deciding what to write this morning because there are so many good teachings in today’s passage and I could not figure out how to bring them together into one theme.  However, as I read the passage again in my attempt to put my thoughts in some sort of order, as I was reading Luke’s account of John the Baptist’s disciples asking Jesus if He was the One I decided to focus on What Jesus said there.  Not the answer Jesus gave John’s disciples, but what He said after they left.  Jesus talked about how the “best people” rejected John the Baptist because he lead an ascetic lifestyle, because he neither drank wine nor feasted.  On the other hand, they also rejected Jesus because He drank and went to parties with people who were considered unsavory.  So, we have these contrasting styles regarding their ministry, yet Jesus and John the Baptist both recognized the other as doing God’s work.  Some of us will be called to serve God by living an austere lifestyle, calling others to set aside the pleasures of this world in order to serve God.  Others will be called to spend our time with sinners in their pursuits, showing them that God loves and cares about them.  And some will be called to a lifestyle somewhere in between.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.