Every time I read Mark 12, I can't help but being a bit amused. Yep, I get to see the guy I follow outsmarting all the scholars and thinkers of his day. I love it when I get to see stuff like that. Of course, I'm also a nerd with a degree in philosophy, so I tend to geek out on things like that.
But when I think only along those lines, I miss out on some important points. As a thinker, I am too often guilty of trying to trap Jesus in my own sophistry. As a teenager, I tried to convince myself that I was too intelligent to be a Christian (which probably had something to do with the fact that I didn't have any intelligent Christian role models). As an adult I tried to justify actions (even those not necessarily wrong) through complex logical models rather than simply putting my focus on God's will.
How God deals with me when I act like this is very interesting. Sometimes I am able to reason my way to truth. More often, though, God makes himself real to me in a way that I can no longer deny Him and His will. But I wonder that if Jesus was with me in physical form, if he would just make me look like an idiot like he made the thinkers of his day. I would certainly deserve it.
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