Parable Priest
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So, he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Luke 15: 1-7
Jesus is our High Priest (Hebrews 4: 14-16). He intercedes on our behalf and ministers to the most untouchable caverns of our soul. He loves us and doesn’t want us to be in the dark when it comes to walking in the light (3 John1:4; Ephesians 5: 7-14; John 17:15).
One of the loving qualities of Jesus that my soul is refreshed by is the fact that He could talk over our heads all day long, every day, for all eternity…but He chooses not to. Jesus is a King who does not seek to keep the keys to His Kingdom to Himself (Matthew 16:19). He is our great Parable Priest. He speaks so that we can hear.
Jesus spoke the complex live in the simplest receivable wording. The Gospel is so deep yet so simple. Jesus loves us. He died for us. All who call on Him as Lord and Savior and will be saved and repent of their sin. Simple.
I pray this simplicity of our Beloved Jesus stirs our tongues to proclaim the Gospel so that others can receive it. In a world where everyone knows everything and can say it better than everyone else, choose to be Jesus. Model our Parable Priest. He spoke so that people would receive life not a lesson.
Don’t water the Gospel down, simply water the seeds that have been sown with truth. Jesus has great expectation of what we do with our salvation (Matthew 25). I encourage you to catch Jesus’ vision for the Gospel and run with is. This world needs Jesus, and we are the agents Jesus has chosen to speak this message. Our Parable Priest, has called us into a holy nation of priests (1 Peter 2:9). Let us speak with confidence, clarity, and consecration.
Nate Staton 