Eventually
he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to
his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk,
sat wearily beside the well about noontime. John 4:5-6
Bored? Could
Jesus ever felt the emotion of boredom? He felt all human emotions right!? According
to the Merriam-Webster dictionary boredom is the state of being weary and
restless through lack of interest. Jesus was certainly weary on many occasions.
Consider the when He spoke with the woman at the well—He was tired…weary. I’ve
personally found that boredom and weariness are related—actually interrelated.
The more bored I am…the more weary I become…and the more bone tired I feel…the
more likely I am to feel bored. Have you ever felt that same relationship?
In the study
by Cowen and Keltner at the University of California, Berkeley, Self-report captures 27 distinct categories
of emotion bridged by continuous gradients, they describe mathematically neighboring
emotions. The emotions are distinctly separate, but there is an
interrelationship between some emotions. For boredom the closest neighboring
emotion was awe. Mathematically that may be of interest, but when a person is
bored awe and interest seem to be the opposite. Boredom seems to be related to annoyance.
Now there is an emotion that Jesus obviously felt when He was confronted by the
Pharisees. Jesus was no fool when it came to responding to those wiley, shrewd,
and plotting Pharisees.
Fools show their annoyance at once, but the
prudent overlook an insult. Proverbs 12:16 NIV
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| Come rest under this tree. Somewhere in Israel. |
When Jesus
was speaking to His followers in what is known now as the Sermon on the Mount
He addressed the righteousness of the Pharisees, who considered themselves to
be very pure and holy.
But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better
than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you
will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven! Matthew 5:20
The Pharisees
may have continually annoyed Jesus—but they provided lessons in true
righteousness and the way that God wants us to live. Jesus could easily have
become bored with the Pharisees continual nagging at Him…but He always turned
it into a lesson for someone. Are we listening to those lessons today? Are you
searching for a lifestyle and attitudes that please God? I am.
Jesus had the
answer for weariness.
Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy
burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you,
because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:28-29
Prayer
~ Jesus, Thank You for continuing to give us lessons by which to live. To live
and not be bored. There are too many facets to life that should keep us in awe…and
not let us slip into boredom, but then that is a human emotion…and we are
human. May we rejoice in all that You have done for us and anticipate the day
of Your return.
Daily
Bible Reading: Jeremiah 7-9
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photos by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All
scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT) unless otherwise noted.
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