What WOULD Jesus Do?

As I was assigning homework in my College Statistics class today, one of my students cried out, "Mrs. Denny, remember tonight is Wednesday night!  A lot of us have church tonight.  Be like Jesus!"  I guess this was their cry for me to be merciful in the assignment.

"Okay," I replied "Tonight's homework are problems 1 through 24 ...ALL!" 

In the midst of their loud protests, one student shot back, "Okay, Mrs. Denny, but don't expect me to do all of this work because of church tonight.  After all, what would Jesus do?"

"His homework!"  I quickly retorted with a grin.

"Awww..." the class moaned!  My students realized that the battle had been lost.  Their combined cleverness was no match for a teacher determined to stick to her guns, so to speak.

“Well, then,” Jesus said, “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.”His reply completely amazed them.   Mark 12:17

Christ's divine wisdom cut through the many traps the religious leaders set for Him.  Their combined cleverness was no match for God incarnate.  Jesus wasn't just wise, He was righteous.  His wisdom was followed through with righteous words and righteous actions.  You can be as wise as Solomon, you can know the right thing to do, but if you don't follow through with the right actions, then wisdom is worthless.  Even Solomon, reknowned for his wisdom, fell short on following through in his life. 

 Designed to get young (and some not so young) people to think about their actions, a popular Christian cliche' asks, "What would Jesus do?" The point of this catchy slogan is to help people put on the breaks in situations, think, and respond as Christ would.  But it isn't enough to know how we are to respond or what we are to say - we must actually follow through and DO what we know to be true, righteous, and pleasing to God.  So, what WOULD Jesus do?  Now go and do it!

In His Love, Cathy