Waterside Bird Photo 3/12/05

March 18, 2005

Good WorksJn 10:31-42

The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus. Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?" The Jews answered him, "We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God." Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, "You are gods"'? If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and Scripture cannot be set aside, can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God'? If I do not perform my Father's works, do not believe me; but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." Then they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power.

He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained.
Many came to him and said, "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true." And many there began to believe in him.

"Even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." This line stands out to me out of everything in this reading. I am like the people in the crowd accusing Jesus of blasphemy. There are so many times that I just do not understand God or see the actions of God in what I am seeing. The world is full of many mysteries and wonders that are far beyond my grasp or understanding. I will meditate on seeing the good works in the world and accepting them as being from God even though I do not understand many things about them and those who are instruments of God. Seeing the goodness of God's creation and the goodness of the acts of God's creatures as being a gift from God and connection with God will be my meditation for today.