Our Own Ideas

We all have our own opinions, our own perspectives, and our own ideas. When I think of an ideal day, for example, I may say that the sun is shining and I'm outside on a swing (stereotypical, I know) yet another person may say that it's snowing and they're comfortably in their house on the couch reading. We have our own ideas of perfection.

So, when Jesus told His disciples that He would be rejected by the people, they didn't believe Him. Why? Because they had their own ideas of what the Messiah should be. They thought He was going to be accepted by the people, they thought He was going to obviously be the Messiah. Yet, He was rejected by the people, they had doubts, and until He preached they did not know who He was. He died for them. He died for us. Yet, in their eyes He was not supposed to die; He was supposed to live. 

We often look back and think that we would have automatically believed Him, as if there was this light that shone down on Him signifying the Messiah. Would we really have? Would we really have tossed our ideas of the Messiah out the window and believed Him? I, honeslty, can't say I would have. If His own disciples didn't, then who am I to say I would? 

We have our own ideas of what Jesus and God should be. But if we were faced with the Messiah today, would we be able to call Him by name? I wonder sometimes, because I went 18 years without the Church in my life and I didn't know any better.