Today's Daily Lesson comes from Mark chapter 14 verses 17 through 21:
17 When it was evening, he came with the twelve. 18And when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said, ‘Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.’ 19They began to be distressed and to say to him one after another, ‘Surely, not I?’ 20He said to them, ‘It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread* into the bowl* with me. 21For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.’
Jesus was destined to die, but not because it was the will of God that Jesus be sent to die. Jesus was sent from God to show us how to live, but we rejected him.
So, the destiny.
When it became clear that Jesus would be rejected, Jesus embraced his fate. He laid his own life down; it was not solely taken from him. This made him more than a victim.
Judas, too, was destined to betray Jesus; but it was not that Judas had no choice.
He, too, had will. He, too, made his own decisions. His guilt was his own.
I do not understand the mystery of free will and human destiny. It is a mystery hidden with God.
But in the mystery I do know the Scripture is true:
"For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!"
What will be will be, but that doesn't mean we don't make our own choices and seal our own fate.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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