“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
DEUTERONOMY 3-4
29But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him. 31For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.(3:29-31)
29But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him. 31For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.(3:29-31)
MARK 11:20-33
27They arrived again in Jerusalem, and while Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders came to him. 28“By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you authority to do this?”
29Jesus replied, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.30John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin? Tell me!”
31They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ 32But if we say, ‘Of human origin’ . . . ” (They feared the people, for everyone held that John really was a prophet.)
33So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”
Jesus said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”
JOURNAL
The pharisees had an agenda...Jesus did not fit their idea of the Messiah. So they were intent on exposing him as a heretic and a fraud. As a result Jesus threatened to expose their motives or at least outsmarted them in a way that left them silent.
Most people never really willingly expose their true agendas. Vulnerability and true honesty too often is seen as weakness not strength. While Jesus does play coy with them in the end he has no hesitation exposing who he is and what is mission and purpose are.
Jesus is here for us always, we can always be honest, always be vulnerable. It is why he came to establish connection and relationship. He is the calm in the middle of the storm, he is the answer when the world has only questions, he is a savior when the world offers condemnation and hate.
Most people never really willingly expose their true agendas. Vulnerability and true honesty too often is seen as weakness not strength. While Jesus does play coy with them in the end he has no hesitation exposing who he is and what is mission and purpose are.
Jesus is here for us always, we can always be honest, always be vulnerable. It is why he came to establish connection and relationship. He is the calm in the middle of the storm, he is the answer when the world has only questions, he is a savior when the world offers condemnation and hate.
7“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
9“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
MATTHEW 7:7-12
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