Our Ration of Ridicule

He said to them, “Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.” And they ridiculed Him. Matthew 9:24

No can about it, it did happen to the best of us. Jesus our Lord gave His word, and they ridiculed Him!

A man of some repute, a ruler of some sort, came to Jesus begging for the Master's help. Jesus came to help and was ridiculed when He said the girl was not dead but sleeping. A man worships Jesus and begs a favor, his guests mock the Lord. How embarrassing for this ruler of mockers. We believe in Jesus too, what is our ration of ridicule?

Most of the time our ration is a collective portion. Those who believe in Jesus are mocked as a group in various ways through the mass media and in talk on the street. We feel this ridicule, sometimes more than others, and it does not go by painlessly. However, at some point every follower of our Lord may receive a portion of his or her ridicule in a more direct way, and in a personal way. That's when it really hurts.

Of course there are those times when my personal ridicule is well deserved. I believe in Jesus but that has not yet set me free of doing the occasional silly, bubble-headed, goofy, or downright dumb thing at times. I fully accept those times and even come to laugh along with the mockers, eventually. But ridicule for doing the right thing hurts deeply, and it is quite the right thing to believe in Jesus the Christ. We'll just have to live for His day; it is coming soon!

No ridicule in Heaven, just lots of good laughs with our Lord,

Bucky