“Gracious Impatience”
In 1965, Gatorade was invented and proven to be a health benefit to professional athletes. Pepsi saw a “profit potential,” and therefore bought-up the rights to the product. However, there was a problem: it didn’t taste very good. Therefore, to make it more palatable to the general public, (and more profitable for them), Pepsi had to “sweeten” the taste. The main ingredient in Gatorade is now: water, sugar, table salt, carbohydrates, 30 mg of potassium, 93 mg of chloride, high fructose corn syrup, and artificial colors! They’ve changed it around and added a few things just to make it palatable to the general public; and as a result, people (including kids), drink it thinking they are getting healthy when in reality they are just getting one step closer to diabetes and other health problems.
Many have, and are, doing the same thing with God and His Bible. They are taking out certain “ingredients” and adding others to it in order to make it more palatable and more appealing to the general public. And the public is “swallowing” these religions because they “taste good,” and in their minds think they are saved when in reality they are just getting one step closer to Hell (cf. Matthew 7:21-23).
While Jesus is “meek and lowly in heart” to all those that come unto Him (Matthew 11:28-30), He also says in the same passage: “Come learn of Me.” Let’s make sure we have the complete picture of the One we call “Savior.”
- Jesus looked upon certain religious leaders with “anger and grief” (Mark 3:5)
- Jesus spoke of the rejection of many people on Judgment Day (Mark 13:26-27)
- Jesus spoke of horrific consequences for misleading children (Mark 9:42)
- Jesus destroyed a herd of swine without regret or compensation to the owner (Mark 5:1-20)
- Jesus angrily overturned the money-changers tables in the temple (Mark 11:15-17)
- Jesus rebuked Peter as demonic (Mark 8:33)
- Jesus became indignant with the disciples (Mark 10:13-14)
- Jesus accused the religious leaders of His day of being ignorant of the Scriptures (Mark 12:24)
- Jesus describes His entire generation as “faithless” (Mark 9:19)
- Jesus made it clear that following Him would involve suffering (Luke 9:23)
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It seems that many church-goers never hear the complete story of Jesus, and it’s probably because they don’t want to hear it. They say, “Speak to us about the Lamb of God, but don’t speak of the Lion of Judah!” (cf. Isaiah 30:10). The result is a people who are committed to Christ’s religion only in-so-far as it “taste good.”
Toby Miller