Mark 9: 30-32 New Living Translation 30 Leaving that region, they traveled through Galilee. Jesus didn’t want anyone to know he was there, 31 for he wanted to spend more time with his disciples and teach them. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies. He will be killed, but three days later he will rise from the dead.” 32 They didn’t understand what he was saying, however, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant. Fear is a powerful thing, it can cause you to run in the opposite direction or just stay frozen in the same place. It seems that thinking rationally gets thrown out the window and we tend to think the worst or ignore it altogether.
Jesus wanting to instruct His disciples went away from the crowds and told them again very plainly that He will "be betrayed into the hands of his enemies. He will be killed, but three days later he will rise from the dead." The Bible tells as clearly that the disciples "didn’t understand what he was saying" but rather than ask Him plainly what or why He is saying what He saying they just allowed their fear to keep them silent. Sometimes we are afraid to ask because we know the answer and just down want to accept it, like not wanting to go to the doctor because you know he's going to tell you you're sick. Somehow we think as if not knowing the truth would make things better. Fear doesn't have to be a bad thing. The fact is that we all should have a healthy fear of God. A kind of fear that causes us to run from what we do not know to Him who knows all things. We can and should trust Him. He tells us in Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law."
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