I was talking with a friend about visualizing Jesus\u2019 experience day-to-day. I asked, “Do you think Jesus would have mowed his own lawn?”<\/p>\n
Puzzled, my friend said, “My gut reaction is, ‘No.’ He needed to be out teaching.” Then he added, “But why do I think that way?”<\/p>\n
After 2,000 years, one of the most enduring memories of the man Jesus is his teaching \u2013 quotable statements, absorbing parable stories, compelling conversations.<\/p>\n
It seems, however, that the focus on teaching overshadows other typical activities in Jesus\u2019 experience. Miracles take on this precedence as well. Why do we think this way?<\/p>\n
The first-century ebb and flow of daily living necessitated natural down-times\u00a0for anyone living at that time including Jesus.<\/p>\n
(1) Harvest and (2) home maintenance as well as (3) winter rains inevitably interrupted crowd-gathering and hindered travel.** Unless<\/em> Jesus spontaneously controlled the weather, but is control really the point?<\/p>\n While teaching is a defining activity of Jesus\u2019 life, he was also subject to the constraints of daily living on this planet.<\/p>\n Which means\u00a0Jesus had to\u00a0submit his daily activities\u00a0to earthly constraints.<\/p>\n