Jesus used to teach in the temple during the day and at night go to the mount of olives and early in the morning people would come in the temple to listen to Him.
It's interesting to see that although many were blessed by Him, no one bothered to ask Him where he lived. No one invited Him to their house to spend the night there. Jesus didn't make demands on people that they must do this and that because He was blessing them. He didn't get irritated inside and one day fail to come to the temple to teach or while teaching He never made cutting remarks to the crowds who were listening to them. He was a servant to them and His expectation was not from them but from His Father. He was contented that His Father allowed Him to sleep in the cold in the mountains and be bitten by mosquitos. He never even once complained of his circumstances; have to sleep on the cold and even being rained on sometimes when it rained. He was faithful to God and compassionate to the people.
The great preachers and bible teachers of His day were seeking for an opportunity to kill Him but they feared the crowds. Satan entered Judas and He went to discuss with the chief priests how he might betray Jesus.
Judas was a wholehearted disciple of Jesus who later became a backslider. He walked with Jesus, saw all the miracles Jesus performed except the ones He performed with three disciples, John, Peter and James. He listened to all the teachings and warnings of Jesus but the love of money blinded Him from all that. He even went to preach and cast out demons and healed the sick but satan found an opening in His heart and entered Him to betray Jesus for money.
We learn here that today you can be a blessing and tomorrow you can a curse to those you blessed if you are not careful to guard your heart with all diligence. You can listen to the most powerful sermons in the whole world and still be a backslider. You can preach, and perform miracles and heal the sick, but if you are not watchful; the love of money will give satan room in your heart and you will betray Jesus in your private life like Judas. You will begin doing things which you'd never do in the presence of Jesus.
Don't look at your past walk with God and how much God has been able to use you in the past. Take heed to yourself and guard jealously the place if private devotions, your inner walk with God. If you stop seeking God and begin congratulating yourself on how far you've come, you will collapse. Concentrate on how much ground you are yet to possess. How much unchristlike you still are and need to be more Christlike. Run the race fixing your eyes on Jesus. When your eyes are fixed, you will not look back on how far you've come but you will only see how far you still are to go. You will not look sideways to see whether others are following or not or to see the circumstances. The evidence that your eyes are on Jesus is that you will not be discouraged or give up. You will not be shaken by anyone or any circumstance. Heb 12:1-3
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