Christians Want Jesus to do Everything

Matthew tells us Jesus told the apostles "all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

 

Now one might ask, "Why didn't the apostles just "pray" for the world after all Jesus had told them, "Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."  Why did they have to go when they could have prayed? Surely if the apostles had asked Jesus to save the people he would have done it, he said he would do anything they asked in his name. All they had to do was to pray and say "in Jesus' name" that's what we do.

 

No matter how much we protest deep down we do not believe the Bible. On one occasion the disciples had been unable to cast out a demon. They "came to Jesus privately and said, 'Why could we not cast it out?'  He said to them, 'Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.'" Christians today do not believe Jesus meant that literally.

 

Today we hear prayers asking God to do a myriad of things including healing people, comforting people, saving people and etc. God is not going to do any of those separate from what he has already designed. Jesus said his kingdom is not of this world and that if it was he would have fought. Instead Jesus surrendered without a fight resulting in his physical death as well as the deaths of many of his followers. Jesus has told us how to live but Christians today want more. They want Jesus to do things he has instructed his followers to do.

 

When we hear prayers for Jesus to heal someone don't you wonder what sort of a loving God would see his follower sick but not do anything unless a third party asked him to heal them? What sort of God would see a follower in distress and not do anything unless a third party asked him to comfort that individual? What sort of a loving God would see a person who is lost and not do anything to save that person unless a third party asked him to save them? After all he claims to want everyone saved.  

 

No, God has told us what to do and how to do it and promised to be with us but that is not enough. Christians want him to do it, too. Christians want Jesus to do everything.