Significant moments in life ... Part 4

Luke 22:7-13 – 'Preparation for the Last Supper'

As we enter into the Passion Week / Holy Week (the last week before the Crucifixion), we remember the struggles which Christ went through, even before He took upon Himself the sins of the world on the cross.
And I am stunned to know that ordinary times/events in my life, can be a significant contributor to God’s manifold plans for this Universe.
Yes, Christ's work is complete - but, we have a job at hand.


vs.10 – He replied, ‘As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters…’

How many of us would dare venture to find a place/location, when the landmark given is not stationary but mobile (a moving object)?
Many of us have trouble finding a place, when the address is clear and directions and landmark are straight forward.

Imagine, if I invite you to my house for a dinner, and I tell you, “Take Bus No.55 and get down at the last stop, walk 10 ft ahead and you will find a cow on the road - well, it’s possible in India, as cows are everywhere :-) and there you take left, until you reach a place where there will be 2 dogs barking (which is also possible in our country), and then 5 ft from there take right, and the house in front of a person riding his cycle is my house”
– with that kind of a direction, will you try to come to my house?
Wouldn't you think I am crazy to give you such a direction to my house?

Here in this passage, we see Jesus precisely doing that as He sends Peter & John to fix a place for them to have their Last Supper, with that kind of a direction in response to their “Where?” question.

Now, interestingly Peter doesn’t have any questions (for once)!
And they both set about their task.
A delayed obedience here would have meant, this ‘landmark’ man wouldn’t be there anymore – because he is moving!

What is even more interesting is that, this man doesn’t even know what’s going to happen, when he is going about his regular mundane job of fetching water. He was NOT commissioned to be Peter & John’s guide or to bring them home. He was just about his ‘menial’ work, and very faithfully at that, if I may add.
That turns out to be a very decisive pointer for Peter & John to find the house and organize ‘The Last Supper’.

This man who was carrying the water jar – could his movement have been orchestrated by God?

Sometimes we need to go about doing things, which we need to do in life.
Who knows, as we are faithfully discharging our duties, it might be a pointer for someone else, in their walk with God.
Hence the need to go about our work - in other words, MIND OUR BUSINESS, before someone else says that to us :-)

Yes, God is Sovereign, but that doesn’t relieve us of certain jobs. Let’s carry our water jars, as it were!!