The Biblical Remix – Move

John 18:1-11 – http://bit.ly/biblicalremixmove

Of all the disciples Peter was the most gully.  Jesus and eleven of the disciples were chilling in the spot, the Garden of Gethsemane.

That twelfth disciple, Judas, was a snitch. He cut a deal with the chief priests and Pharisees to sell out Jesus. At the Garden Judas rolled up with soldiers and officers carrying torches and weapons.  It was about to go down.

Jesus already knew this.  So he stepped to them and asked them who they were looking for.  They said “Jesus the Nazarene”.  Jesus was like “That’s me”.  Bam, with the power of His words they LITERALLY fell to the ground. (Sidenote: Jesus was so real and so divine.  A true G.)

The soldiers got back up from the ground mad shook.  Jesus asked them again who they were looking for. They said “Jesus the Nazarene”.  Jesus was like “Yo, I told you that is me.  You can take me but let my crew go”.

At that Peter jumped in with his shank.  He cut off the right ear of this dude named Malchus.

While Peter was watching the blood drip from the ear, this Ludacris song was playing in the background:

“Move b****, Get out the way, Get out the way, Get out the way, Move b****…”

Reflection:

In protecting his peoples (especially his rabbi Jesus), Peter stepped into projects mode and pulled out his shank on the coming opposition.  He missed the head of Malchus but managed to cut off his right ear.  Peter was down for the fight.  Unfortunately that was not the kind of fight Jesus wanted Peter to have.  The fight Jesus wanted was earlier that day in prayer.  Jesus knew how the night was going to go down and he knew prayer was the key to the battle.  Unfortunately the disciples kept falling asleep (Matthew 26 – http://bit.ly/A5B2Nn)

This is so us.  Sometimes when ish goes down we revert to our old ways and get real gully.  Cussing.  Cutting.  Coming out of our face.  We say exactly what is on our minds regardless if it hurts people.  How many times have we embarrassed ourselves because we handled a situation in a very untasteful way?  But that is not what Jesus role modeled in the Garden.  He prayed.

How is your prayer life?  Do you even pray?

I am ready to battle in prayer when ish goes down.  But how many times could I have prayed before things popped off?  Too many times.  Honestly I can be real lax with it.  This is a struggle I have had.  In analyzing it, for some reason I wait to be defensive in prayer when I could have been offensive earlier which might have helped me avoid the unnecessary foolishness to begin with.

I know for some people pulling out the shank is so much easier.  It is familiar.  It is what we grew up around.  My encouragement to you are the words of Jesus Himself, “those who use the sword will die by the sword”.  Don’t let your old ways keep you from growing/progressing/living in the new life Jesus offers.