I love the way Jesus turns obstacles into opportunities. In chapter 12:13-17 Jesus is confronted by some Pharisees and Herodians about taxes, they came with the intention of trapping him in what he said, but instead of fighting with them for their wrong attitude, he Just turned this situation into an opportunity to teach them about God. “Whose head is this, and whose title?” he asked them, then after their answer he added “Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (12:17)
The same thing happened with the Sadducees “who says there is not resurrection” they came with a tricky question to Jesus, by saying “Moses wrote for us” and then they told him the whole story about the seven brothers and the woman who married all of them, and then asked him: in the resurrection whose wife will she be? Again Jesus did not answered in the way they expected, but instead he reminded them “about the story of the bush” and from it he show them a new approach towards the resurrection that they might not thought about before. He told them: “He is God not of the dead, but of the living”
Finally, I like to share the other story that called my attention in which again Jesus took a difficult situation and turned into an opportunity. He was meeting in the house of Simon the leper (14:3-9) and suddenly a woman came and poured over him “a very costly ointment of nard” and some there didn’t like it and said: “why was the ointment wasted in this way” obviously the reasons that they gave were kind of reasonable, but Jesus show them that anything that they or we invest on him will never be “a waste” and he told them, if you really want to take of the poor “ you always will have the opportunity to do so”.
If we really want to walk we Jesus, we need to be ready to learn how to see things in the way he does.