The journey with Jesus is full of the unexpected.

For the disciples it meant gloomy confusing predictions of Jesus death, harsh rebukes, mountaintop visions, failures trying to heal people, and most interestingly, long fishing assignments to retrieve a coin for paying taxes. The key to these many events for me is the last passage in this section. The best mentality, the one it takes time to arrive at as a follower of Jesus, is one of great humility and trust. The attitude that has walked with Jesus and learned from him for so long that they trust quickly and without a lot of extra information.

We need faith like children–but that faith doesn’t come quickly. it requires a lot of time following and learning to trust God. Faith that has had a few weird assignments from God and has God lead them through them. If you’re not there yet, that’s fine. I’m not as close to that target as I would like to be, but its a goal that I aspire to.