Children enjoy showing off their favorite things. In schools, they are given a chance to stand before the class and brag about what is most important to them. This is known as Show and Tell.
It is exactly what it sounds like. The child holds up a treasured object and begins to tell about it. The key word in that sentence is “treasured.” It is the love of the item that makes Show and Tell so meaningful to the child. The child wants to share, because they want everyone else to know of their love.
The disciples in the New Testament were the same way. Mark 6:30 reveals the disciples’ driving desire to show and tell the thing that was most important to them. Their audience is equally revealing.
Their Show and Tell was to an audience of one.
Jesus.
The Show and Tell in Mark came about between two pivotal events in the formation of the early church. Jesus had just sent his closest followers “two and two” to minister to the world. His next big miracle would be to feed the five thousand. In that seminal bubble of time between the two, Jesus and his disciples gathered together, and the disciples shared with the Master all they had done.
Their excitement must have been palpable, for they had emulated Jesus, doing all he had taught them.
Why was this such a momentous event? Jesus was about to surge forth into a season of miracles, and he would begin to stir the wrath of the Temple priests. He needed his followers to get their sea legs. They had to learn the excitement of ministry in the name of Jesus so that they could carry on after Jesus was gone.
How does that apply to us today? Our Christianity is all about the Show and Tell, for that is Jesus’ ministry in a nutshell. If we are excited about Jesus, we will want the world to know, and we will hold Jesus up as our prized possession, proudly telling the world of that which we love the most.
Jesus.
What we love, we share with the world. Let’s make sure it is Jesus.
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