4/10/2023 0 Comments Moneybag purse![]() And sometimes Jesus, for his own reasons, allows the disguised wolves to live among the sheep for a long time and do great damage before their deception is exposed. Wolves can look and sound almost exactly like sheep. It was a stunning and grievous blow to them all when in the end he sold Jesus for thirty pieces of silver (Matthew 26:15). Even when Jesus finally sent Judas off to carry out his betrayal, the others didn’t seem to suspect him (John 13:28–29). It’s astonishing that none of Judas’s fellow disciples perceived his deceitfulness. He witnessed Jesus’s incredible miracles and saw the Father provide for their needs over and over again.Īll during the time Judas was part of the Twelve, he mostly said and outwardly performed the right things. He received personal instruction from Jesus. He heard more of Jesus’s sermons than almost anybody. He ate with them, sat around evening fires with them talking about the kingdom of God, and he prayed with them. He traveled long, dusty roads with these missionary comrades. Judas lived with Jesus and the other eleven disciples for the better part of three years. This is what is unnerving about Judas.įor a long time, Judas’s reputation was as a student and close companion of Jesus. Shockingly, for quite a while loving money and hating God can actually look to others like devotion to God. In Judas, Jesus showed us an alarming example of what loving money and hating God can look like. You cannot serve God and money” (Matthew 6:24). In Judas, Jesus showed us the heart-hardening, heart-blinding, heartbreaking end of treasuring the wrong thing.Īnd Jesus had said, “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. Jesus said, “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). In letting Judas carry the moneybag, Jesus showed us by example what he meant. thieves break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19–20). Jesus had said, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where. I believe Jesus was putting his money where his mouth was. Why did Jesus allow it? Putting Jesus’s Money Where His Mouth Was It was deliberate Jesus knew Judas was pilfering. But this was not poor judgment on Jesus’s part. Donors were supporting this ministry financially (Luke 8:3), and Jesus appointed the one guy he knew was a “devil” (John 6:70) to manage the money. One is tempted to offer the Lord some consulting on good stewardship. ![]() Jesus chose Judas to be the treasurer of his itinerant nonprofit. Jesus could have given the moneybag to Nathaniel, “an Israelite indeed, in whom there no deceit” (John 1:47), or to John, “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 21:20), or to Levi, who had extensive financial experience (Luke 5:27). Last week we focused on Mary, who poured a year’s wages on Jesus’s feet, and Judas, who saw Mary’s worshipful act as huge waste, because “he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it” (John 12:6).īut this fact raises the question: Why was Judas carrying the moneybag in the first place? ![]() Please enable JavaScript if you would like to comment on this blog.Jesus put a thief in charge of his moneybag. ***The pattern is ready, the Phoebe Bag! You can download it from the right sidebar under Free Patterns or right here**** View the entire comment thread. ***The pattern is ready, the Phoebe Bag! You can download it from the right sidebar under Free Patterns or right here**** If you have any suggestions, let me know. Sound good? One more thing, anybody have a good name for the bag? I'm terrible at naming things. Hopefully I'll have the pattern ready for next week. Over the weekend I'll make another one and take photos for the tutorial. I think I'll go transfer all my purse stuff now (leaving some stuff out, of course):) I love it! I lined it with a brown & white Sis Boom print. I had forgotten all about it - if I had remembered it, I would have used it in my quilt. I took a photo with it on my shoulder so you can get a good idea of the real size.ĭo you recognize the fabric? That's the fabric I designed and had printed at Spoonflower. This one is a smidge larger (I think I have a problem with small bags). The orange one was just slouchier and taken from a slightly farther position.Īs you can see, I whipped up another one. ![]() I should have used a tripod to take photos of the two bags because in the photos I posted, the aqua one looks larger, but in reality both bags are about the same size. It really is a cute bag, but too small for me. I do plan to revisit the design of the orange one, but in a larger size. I should have listened to my gut - that was the bag I intended to make available in the first place, but then I started playing around, resulting in the orange one. With an overwhelming majority, the aqua purse won! Thanks for all your input. ![]()
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