I heard an interesting quote one time about the phrase “What would Jesus do?”
The person said, “In the first place, we can’t really know what Jesus would do...because even when He was on earth He was never doing what His followers “thought” He should be doing.” Example, eating with publicans and sinners, pardoning the woman caught in adultury, etc.
The second point was, “And even if we knew what He would do...what makes us think we would do it.” His disciples certainly failed, and so would we. Even Paul said that the things that he wanted to do he didn’t and the things which he didn’t want to do he did.
The person said, “In the first place, we can’t really know what Jesus would do...because even when He was on earth He was never doing what His followers “thought” He should be doing.” Example, eating with publicans and sinners, pardoning the woman caught in adultury, etc.
The second point was, “And even if we knew what He would do...what makes us think we would do it.” His disciples certainly failed, and so would we. Even Paul said that the things that he wanted to do he didn’t and the things which he didn’t want to do he did.
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AGREE!
It’s rather presumptuous of fallible sinners to even dream that they could be Christ. At best we can imitate Him know we ALL fall short.
Isa.55:8-9
[8] For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
[9] For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The ugly truth is to “what would Jesus do” is we don’t know ... we can guess but as He states, His ways are NOT our ways. He’s got the WHOLE picture. He’s Perfect. We are not perfect or have the whole picture.