jude thaddaeus

Do you ever wonder why God doesn’t just step out of Heaven and fix everything?

I bet the disciples wondered that too, even about Jesus. Here was the Messiah, the anointed One, come at last after centuries of waiting, to finally set everything straight. This was the moment! This had to be it!

“Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.’

Then [Jude] said, ‘But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” - John 14:21-22

You can almost hear how perplexed Jude is. Come on Jesus, fix it! You’re here to set us free from the Romans, to put Israel back on the map, to rule and reign, aren’t you?

The truth is that Jesus did intend to show himself to the world - through them, and through love. In fact it’s because of those men in that room that you and I have heard of Jesus at all.

We, like Jude, might see all the things that need fixing. We might even burn with injustice at it all. And perhaps God asks us the same question. What are you doing about it? How will you step out and start changing the world?