Preparations for the Passover
As it was to find the colt that he had to climb to get to Jerusalem: Luke 19.29-31 Jesus knew exactly where to go and who to contact to find the place where He would be the Passover with His disciples. Peter and John are sent for this purpose. Their mission is not to find on their own premises which would suit what the Lord had to do but move into what was already prepared and, somehow, to appropriate it for to serve the purpose for which the Lord had intended.
Sometimes, indeed, that the missions that the Lord entrusts to us does not go as easily. The accuracy of details given here as the arrangement of things we do not always appear so obviously. But what is certain is that the basic mission remains the same. It is not in the mind of God sent His whatsoever which is itself the means to accomplish his mission. The Envoy enters a work that God Himself has prepared: Ephesians 2.10. He can count, as was the case here, on specific instructions from God, he will receive guidance by the Holy Spirit and he will be confirmed by the facts. The mission is the mission of God, not ours, we are only assistants, workers who work with him, not for Him : 1 Cor 3.9.
Another point already noted during the episode of the mission given to two disciples to find the colt, God knows where, everywhere, are friends and support that he needs in time for the work He entrusts to us. We do not know, but God willing their hearts so that they are prepared to make him in time, the service rendered. The means of God go far beyond what we can estimate. In his despondency, Elijah thought to have remained alone in fearing the Lord. He will respond with him, there were still 7000 in Israel: 1 Kings 19.18 .
God gives us, for the missions he entrusts to us today, to act with full rest than by faith in His omnipotence and sovereignty!
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