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Dale Lewis -“In Need of a Miracle?” – /
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John 6:42-52
“In need of a miracle?”
I have found personally the hardest thing for me to overcome is rejection. I once heard that every person is born with an innate need to love and by loved. My difficulty is that when I’m not loved I’m not too keen on loving back. John chapter 6 verse 41-52 deals with Jesus’ claim of being the bread that has come down from heaven and the crowd’s rejection of Jesus based upon it.
What is interesting to observe is how Jesus responds to their rejection as He corrects their lack of understanding by further declaring who He is and what He has come to do. Their complaint had to do with their knowledge of Him and in another sense their lack of knowledge of Him. They knew too much of His earthly existence and too little of His heavenly origins. That my dear friend’s is always the case with our misconceptions with regards to Jesus. Four times Jesus tells them that He came down from heaven (three of them in this passage alone). When manna was given in the wilderness in Exodus chapter 17 verse 3 the people murmured now that Jesus proclaims that He alone is that manna which sustains and satisfies; the people again murmur. “Who does this guy think He is,… God? We know his father and mother”. They were wrong,.. they knew his mother but they didn’t know His Father. He had done extraordinary things in feeding ten to twelve thousand on five loaves and two fish but they still saw Him as ordinary. Hey folks there are those today with the same reaction towards Jesus, “He is just a man, a teacher”. Yet even with their rejection of Him He still loves them enough to lay down His life. If Jesus would have been more like me, He might have stopped just before His crucifixion and say, “I’m laying down my life for everyone, EXCEPT those folks who didn’t believe me when I told them I was the Bread of Life!” Saint’s the greatest miracle Jesus ever performed is the one that He is still performing each and every day, “Loving those who don’t love Him!”
This has been Pastor Dale
Blessings!
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