Incomplete Jesus

When we were at Quest we looked at a passage of Scripture from Acts 9... We read the whole passage and then went back through it recreating (from memory) what happened. Then I asked “What did you notice about Jesus?”

Well, something that one of the participants said caught my attention. Here check out this passage of scripture first:

"I am Jesus, the One you're hunting down. I want you to get up and enter the city. In the city you'll be told what to do next."

His companions stood there dumbstruck—they could hear the sound, but couldn't see anyone—while Saul, picking himself up off the ground, found himself stone-blind. They had to take him by the hand and lead him into Damascus. He continued blind for three days. He ate nothing, drank nothing.”

The participant noticed that this was the first time that he remembers Jesus “creating” blindness and not healing it. Look at that, he actually struck Saul (who would soon be Paul) blind. It’s not the image of Jesus that I generally carry with me. The healing, kind-hearted Jesus that we so often focus on. No, this Jesus seems to be hurt by Saul’s actions, it reminds me of the Jesus that flipped over the temple tables and created such a scene with the religious leaders of the day. This Jesus had emotion. I still haven’t figured out exactly what this means for me, but it definitely blew apart the incomplete image of Jesus that I had before.