Funny Thing

So I'm reading my bible this morning. Wait....backtrack....rewind! I pray before reading this morning that God would reveal something new to me in His Word that I haven't seen before. And just like God is the loving God he is he answered me with this....

Two new things revealed to me in Mark:

1. When the rich man came to Jesus and asked what must he do to inherit eternal life, declaring that he had kept all of the commandments, Jesus looked at him and LOVED him and said, "One thing you lack...Go sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then, come follow me." Mark 10:17-21
----Jesus loved this man. A man whom had followed him and obeyed his commandments, yet when wanting to know how to inherit the kingdom, Jesus answered him with LOVE. A man that just ran up to Jesus. How much more does he love us? His children whom he knows, or should know if you have a relationship with him?

2. Jesus was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane and his disciples kept falling asleep. He got on to them three times and asked them to pray for him, but they just kept falling asleep. So, Jesus' betrayer comes to find him in the garden, Judas gives the kiss of death signal, and they go in to arrest Jesus. Swords come out, an ear gets cut off, and then, "...a young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind." Mark 14:43-51
----Really??? In all of the seriousness of what was happening, a young man ran away naked? OMGness...this was just too hilarious for me. I mean, why? Why put that in the Word? What is the importance of this? My pastor tells me that this is actually the writer talking about himself and that some believe writers mention themselves in the third person throughout scripture, but I just don't know. Sometimes we, as men, can interpret things wrong, huh? So, I just thought that maybe it has some significance that will show in the latter part of my reading, or maybe it was just an observation made by the writer. Like, out of the corner of his eye there was this crazy dude, almost naked. "Where did he come from? I don't know, but he was there and in a flash, he was naked, then gone." Wonder if it freaked him out?  Kinda just made my day to read that.

AND that about sums it up. God showed me that even though he may ask us to give up many things, even our riches, he asks because he loves us. He knows what's best for us before we even realize it is best. Also, He made me laugh. Plain out laugh.

Thanks God. I love you!