Am I Scandalized or Humbled When My Expectations Are Off?

Wednesday the 29th was the feast day for the beheading of John the Baptist. I wrote about the Baptist on that same day in my blog. (Until tonight I had never heard of such a feast).

Soulgardner wrote about John on the same day because of the feast day and talked about the same Luke passage I did.

Soulgardner wrote some great points. I will leave you with a bit of what was written. Go here for the whole post.

Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.”” (Luke 7:23, NIV)

The Greek word for ‘fall away’ is skandalizo where we get our word scandalized from. Happy are those who are not scandalized when Jesus doesn’t act according to our expectations.

John had the expectation that the REAL Messiah would not have left him lanquising in prison. After all, he had been doing Kingdom work! Why was he suffering for doing right?

I have certain expectations about Jesus too. At times I find they counter who Jesus really is. So at these times I have to answer the same question Soulgardener raised.

 The question is whether John would accept Jesus as His Messiah even though his expectancies towards Jesus were totally smashed? Would you? Would I?