Sunday, February 14, 2016

Did Jesus Experience These Things?

   If the Savior experienced all things while down here, would that include the experience of being wrong, of maybe even causing harm when you did not intend to? Did he have the experience of not being able to help someone as much as He would have liked? Did He experience not having things turn out the way He intended them to?
   He was perfect. He had no flaws. I am aware of that. But, He was born of a human mother and half mortal -- for a reason.
   I think of the story in Mark 6:31-33, of how he thought to take His disciples to a desert place to rest, for there were many people in the place where they were, so that they didn't even have leisure to eat without people disturbing them.
   So they departed in a ship privately, it says. And that word, "privately" suggests they did not want people to know they were leaving, or where they were going.
  "And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all the cities, and out went them, and came together unto him."
   So, Jesus had hoped to take his disciples to a place where they could be at peace from those that would disturb them. But, it didn't work out that way. It didn't turn out as intended. The people saw Him leave, and recognized Him, and chased along the shoreline, and were at point o fexit when Jesus and His disciples arrived to get off.
   I think of another story, in Mark 5, of how a man had a legion of spirits, and Jesus would to cast them out. But, they plead with Him, that instead of sending them out of the country, to send them into a herd of swine. Jesus accommodated them, and the spirits entered the swine, and the swine ran down a steep place into the sea and were drowned.
   And, as a result, I would guess, the owner or owners were without their swine. That they may have had owners is indicated in that it says, "And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done."
   When someone does you harm, you might want him to leave. And, even so, we read, that the  people, "began to pray him to depart out of their coasts."
    Jesus was half mortal. He came down to earth to experience all things. It does seem to me that experiencing such things as these are part of experiencing all things. I know such experiences are part of life's learning experience for me, and consider they might have been part of the Lord's experience, as well.
   I could be wrong, but I wonder. And, no, I do not think it wrong to wonder.
   I think of how it is said that since He was half mortal and half non-mortal, He had the power to not die, and could have refused to die when crucified, but gave His life up. I wonder if it would be the same with the two stories I have related. He lived the mortal side of life, and chose not to use His "powers" (if I can use that word), to see into the future to know that the people would follow him along the seashore, and to know that when the swine were killed, the people would fear Him.
 

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