If You Could Choose

If you could choose between being one of the five thousand that Jesus fed or one of the disciples that passed out the bread, what would you choose?

If you could choose between being healed of blindness or one of the disciples that was watching, what would you choose?

If you could choose between being one of the mob that said crucify Him or one of his disciples who failed Him miserably, what would you choose?

If you could choose between being a Pharisee that secretly saw Jesus at night or one of His disciples that ate with Him everyday, what would you choose?

If you could choose between being in the crowd that wanted to throw Jesus over a cliff or one of His disciples that were often confused by what He said, what would you choose?

If you could choose between hearing Jesus speaking in parables or one of His disciples that got the interpretation, what would you choose?

If you could choose between keeping all of your riches or being one of the disciples that had left everything, what would you choose?



Up close and personal was the way to know Jesus. If we are to grow in our love for each other, shouldn’t up close and personal, be our first priority as well?

1Joh 4:19 (NIV) We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

If you could choose between the professional, power packed, large meeting and the intimate, participatory, small meeting, what would you choose?