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August 14, 2012

"Jumping Jack Flash"

Scripture Reading:
Matthew 14:1-2  (HCSB) At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus.  "This is John the Baptist!" he told his servants. "He has been raised from the dead, and that's why supernatural powers are at work in him."

Devotional Reading:

We can never fully conclude all that Jesus did or said.  He is God and there will always be an element of mystery and unknown about Him.   I’m always intrigued about the conclusions people jump to concerning my family.  My wife, Silvia, is an Hispanic female and our son, Joshua, is half Hispanic and our daughter is half black.  Nonetheless, since I do not support Barack Obama, I am labeled as a racist.  When people see us as a family unit there are a number of conclusions they could jump to…none of which are ever accurate.  Isn't it the same way in life with our emotions, intentions and feelings.  We as people jump to conclusions.  We live by the motto, "if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck it must be a duck".  If life were only this simple. 

All the conclusions people jump to are clearly wrong but instead of people asking us, they will think themselves more politically correct to just jump to one many which fits their agenda.  Interestingly enough, Herod did not think Jesus capable of performing such miracles on his own but jumped to the ego-centric conclusion that because he had killed John the Baptist it must be John’s spirit that was now allowing Jesus to do miracles!  Hmmm, not the first conclusion I would have made, but it must have seemed logical to Herod at the time – We do tend to jump to the wrong conclusion at times.  Sometimes our intuition takes a holiday and we end up assuming that life is different for someone else.  There are many conclusions we can make about Jesus’ life.  Biblical scholars have been studying for centuries to draw some conclusions about Jesus.  The reality is, we can never fully conclude all that Jesus did or said.  He is God and there will always be an element of mystery and unknown about Him.  While it is great to get to know Him better – as this also helps us to understand how we should live – let us not forget that Jesus was the Son of God, He did miraculous things on earth, and he died an horrific death so that we could have true life.  That’s not a conclusion, that’s eternal life.  Too many jump to too many conclusions and are manipulated by their flesh as well as others!

Keep the Son in your eyes,

Pastor Ben J Lahay

Galatians 2:20