i’m struck by the disobedience mentioned in Mark 1 and Luke 5.
Jesus had healed a man, then strongly commanded him to not tell anyone; yet he, understandably, went and told many. . . . as i think we all would. healed of a death-disease..?? come on, please, you really don’t want me to tell anyone???
maybe i’d try to obey for awhile. then someone would ask me “hey, you, weren’t you sick/crippled/blind/cozmockomous yesterday? how’d you get better?” i might hem-haw a little bit, beat around the bush a little more. . . . and then i’d EXPLODE and all the words would go flying all over everyone in the vicinity!!!!
is this ‘acceptable disobedience’ ? was that a sin? was Jesus angry with him?? or disgusted?? did Jesus think or say “man, what’s with that guy? i told him not to tell anyone. is that so hard to understand!!?? what part of ‘tell no one’ don’t you understand??”.
maybe it’s reverse psychology. maybe we should try that: for the next 7 days, tell NO ONE how great God is.
that’s an order.
eh