Jesus Mulls It Over

This was big. It was simple. It was hard for Jesus to fathom. But he did not want to talk to Abba until he understood.

There were two parts.

First, a free person needs to consider harm or hurt to take any action. If harm or hurt is present, it is evil. Take no action.

He got that.

But law assumed harm and hurt. Government assumed it. The world assumed it. There were fights, beatings, killings. People were left to die. There was poverty and cruelty. Everyone blamed it on Satan, But Abba said there was no one to blame but us.

Could evil be stopped?

Everyone needed to step back and think.

Say you got married. Made an oath to be ever faithful. Why oaths! Why vows?Why not a simple yes or a no?

Jesus and Rachel had no vow. What they had was good. It harmed no one. They might never be together again.

But Jesus had seen women stoned for violating rules. He shuddered. People judged. People condemned.

Laws!

Did it hurt to take a piece of fruit from a field of 100 trees?

Abba taught blessing and forgiving. Freedom and love depended on blessing and forgiving. That was the only way to justify a way of life that does not hurt or harm.

Jesus would call to every person. You decide. Do as you would others do to you. Live without hurting, Live without harming. Do not make promises. Let each day be new. Talk to Abba daily.

People must learn just as he had learned.

So:

Do not support hurt or harm. Walk away from evil. Shake dust from feet. Be free. Dance. Be tolerant. Do no evil.

This was how to live. In a family of goodness.

Today a man can end a marriage with a note of dismissal. Fine. But unfair. And what about children? Harming a child is the worst evil.

Jesus knew if he and Rachel were together and had children, they would find a way. There was sky. Air to breathe. Water from wells. Bread. One found a way and led a life. What else was needed?

The new world began with hearts and minds, one person at a time. Life had to be this way. People knowing Abba. People saying no to hurt and harm. Or else love would be strangled. There would be no freedom.

How did one say this?

Mainly by saying little. By living right. Evil hurts and harms. Good does not.

It mattered not that hurt and harm are built into the fabric of law, society and even, it seems, nature. We will have heaven on earth.

We will, Jesus thought. We will.