Matthew 6:25-34
Do Not Worry
25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
John 6:38
Jesus Always Did the Will of His Father
38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.
John 10:30
Jesus and His Father are One
30 I and the Father are one.
39 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. 40 On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” 41 He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” 43 An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. 44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
45 When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. 46 “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”
John 18:28-39
28 Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace, because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. 29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”
30 “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”
31 Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”
“But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. 32 This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
34 “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”
36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. 39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
John 19:7-14
Jesus Still Before Pilate
7 The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 9 and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. 10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). 14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon.
Matthew 27:45-54
45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).
47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling Elijah.”
48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49 The rest said, “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”
50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
54 When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”
I have noticed over the past several years my mind wanders and daydreams quite a bit...It thinks about things in the past, and the things that might happen in the future...Jesus teaches us that we should not worry about such things and that we should seek God first...
This is only a guess, but I think Jesus' mind worked a little more attentively than ours...Below are some thoughts, I have, on His focus on His Father and the Kingdom of God...Jesus is focused not on the earthly things, but the eternal things...
Jesus is focused completely on God...I believe that Jesus had the most disciplined of minds, when He was on earth...When one is as focused as He is, their mind does not spend much thinking about yesterday or thinking about tomorrow, if any...I do not think as focused as He is it spends much time thinking about material things, and things of wealth...I personally do not believe that Jesus' mind wanders much...It is so focused on His Father...Jesus thought so attentively about His Father all the time, and that focus, I believe, took His mind off any past or future worries, for the most part...If He ever started to worry, He brought His mind right back to His Father, as He did in the Mount of Olives, and when He took on the sins of the world at His death...The more focused we are on the lilies of the field and the present moment, then the happier we are and the less likely our minds will slip back into yesterday or be thinking about tomorrow...
I believe that Jesus was perfectly attentive to His Father...That focus made Him very content...His concern was not about His desires or some material thing He might obtain...I believe that His complete concern and attention was doing the will of God each moment that He lived on earth, and that attentiveness made Him very content...I do not believe His mind spent much time in the past, or much time in the future thinking and worrying about what happened in the past, or what could happen in the future...He trusted that God's will will be done, and that was and is enough for Him...I believe that His prayers helped Him stay focused on God and helped His mind stay clear...He always seemed focused and always seemed to be the One that was in control...Even during His trial with Pilate, He seemed to be the One in control...When One is as focused as He is and one hundred percent living in the current moment as Jesus is, the mind does have much, if any time, to pay attention to much attention to anything else...He lived each moment in the present moment...I do not think His mind was cluttered as our minds get...I also do not think His mind wandered much...His mind was focused on God, and doing His Father's will...
Having the mind on God is a very good thing...Being completely and one hundred percent focused on Him keeps, I believe, one satisfied in their current thinking...I also believe that Jesus was acutely sensitive to things...Each moment of living, what He tasted, what He felt, what He heard kept Him so much alive on earth and contented...I do not think Jesus ever got bored on earth, because He was so focused...I believe that Jesus was completely attentive to God, and this focus allowed Him to see things differently than we do...I believe that He so loves the Father, and has such a special relationship with His Father, that He is completely at peace in His Mind, His Body, and His Spirit...
This is only a guess about the focus of Jesus and what was on His mind when He was on earth...But one thing we do know, and that He shows us the mind of God...