Being Misunderstood

What if you went most of your life being misunderstood? You’d say one thing, people would think something different. You would perform an act for a certain purpose and people would interpret in a totally different manner. I feel that way sometime. I take a young man out fishing and people think its about the fishing, heck or that its even about catching a fish yet it is not. Fishing or catching fish is just a context not the end goal.

I can almost guarantee that Jesus felt this way 99% of the time. Misunderstood by the teachers, his disciples, and his people. Jesus says he has to go to the cross, Peter is there to tell him no way. People think he is the messiah that will come and squash the Roman Empire and restore Israel, he goes to the cross. It makes me sad to think how much I do this to him. How much is he trying to show me one thing and I see it incorrectly? And yet the misunderstood is misunderstanding. Father, have mercy on me as I don’t get it and help me have mercy on those that don’t get me.