Purpose: Anointed for Benevolence
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
– Acts 10:38
There are two missions of Jesus captured above: doing good and healing those oppressed by the devil. Our meditation today will be focused on the first one.
No doubt, if one was to describe the life of Jesus Christ, based on all our meditations on His purpose and mission on earth in the past few weeks, benevolence is an apt word to sum up His personality and activities. The intensity of His engagements with people and the effects He had on their lives when He was physically around were phenomenal. Now about 2,000 years after His physical departure from Earth, the impacts He still has in the lives of innumerable people across different ages and climes on a daily basis are even more mind-blowing.
The interesting thing about His good works is that they are neither static nor one-off. The Bible says He “went about doing” them. That means He did not discriminate where His benevolence would be focused; His acts of kindness were without bias and were extended to the Jews, the Samaritans, the Greeks, the Romans, the Syro-Phoenicians, and other nationalities. He taught them, healed them, delivered them, fed them, raised their dead, and restored their sights, among other things.
His good work was also not a one-off, as He continued to minister to people day and night even at personal inconveniences, such that when He was urged to eat at one time, He said, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work” (John 4:34).
Benevolence is not restricted to Jesus. In similar vein, the charge to do good is a universal calling. Jesus only came to show us how best to do it. Through His personal examples, He modelled to us the right spirit with which to do it as well as the commitment, passion, focus, compassion, and consistency needed to make an appreciable impact.
You will succeed in Jesus’s Name!
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