"Jesus, on the Move"

"When therefore the Lord know how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee." (John 4:1-3 KJV)

  "And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News." (Philippians 1:12 NLT) 

  If I could do anything differently, I think that I would really think hard about what that should be, because one never knows what would be taken away from what; even those stupid mistakes we might think we might want to be erased, could also cancel out something we would never want to see removed. Absolutely amazing how this works, but God is amazing in the way that He works: He takes all of our stupid mistakes, and He makes them become opportunities for His glory to be manifested. 

  These are things that are way over our heads, things that we mostly know nothing about the details of; if we get to see anything, it is mostly just a blur of something we might take part in; even then, we only get to see a very small part of what might become of it. It is believed that John the Baptist has been put into prison at this point, as it has most likely been a few months difference from where we last heard of him speaking about Jesus, the Son of God.

  In the process of time, Jesus has been gaining quite a following; compared to John's, Jesus was starting to begin to be a movement, one that was starting to make the Pharisees begin to be concerned. As Matthew Henry puts it, "When the Pharisees thought they had got rid of John (for he was by this time imprisoned), and were pleasing themselves with that, Jesus appears, who was a greater vexation to them than John had been." 

  Now, just so we might understand this, (as I pretend to be informed,) Jesus was not trying to run away from anything, because it was not something He needed to do; but He did avoid certain things that might have brought attention to Him too soon, or because it was not time yet for something else. In other words, Jesus knew full well what to do and when to do it, as He was led in everything that He did, everything! 

  Don't be fooled by speculation and unbelieving talk about the limits of what Jesus knew or did not know; although He was fully man, He was also fully God! I know that is not something accepted in many circles; but if you study the Gospel of John very carefully, you would discover that John is trying very hard to express that fact, without throwing off all of the doubters. 

  In this is written the Truth, by way of definition, something that cannot be denied. If Jesus was on the move, His move was to complete something, to cause something, or to avoid something; but never to do anything that was not meant to be done! Jesus never had to say, Sorry, He never said Oops, and He never did anything He regretted doing! Just saying: because that is how God moves...

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." (Philippians 2:5-8 KJV)