A moment that defines our lives
Matthew chapter 16, verses 21–28
The Book of Matthew has twenty-eight chapters yet we have Jesus speaking about his death here in chapter sixteen. We know that the death he endured is the moment by which most of the world defined him.
When I consider that it seems sad that his death became his greatest moment, of course, it was a culmination of how he lived.
It causes me to think about those I know well and what I believe defines their lives.
I think of one who moved to a city to study and what they achieved there, they have set up many social projects. I think of another and how a medical emergency changed how they lived after that. And another who after many years of not being believed had a hearing impairment finally diagnosed.
I ponder my own life and believe it was defined by a moment of change. I was almost seventeen and had become passionate about an ideology. My passion exceeded those propagating it. The moment of change came when I realised they didn't believe in what they said to the degree that I understood. That moment also allowed me to wonder whether I believed it as much as I understood. I stepped away and in so doing I opened myself to the path on which I continue to travel.
21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
New International Version (NIV)
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