Again the Jews were divided because of these words.

Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and he's crazy. Why do you listen to him?"

Others were saying, "These aren"t the words of someone who is demon-possessed. 

Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"

John 10:19-21 CSB

Jesus was right there and they didn't get him. 

His words challenged the status quo and people tried to put labels on him to explain him away. 

Crazy.

Possessed.

But they could not deny his works. 

Today in our culture Jesus can be just as divisive, maybe the labels aren't the same, but they are there. (Good person, good teacher, irrelevant etc).

But what of his works? 

As followers of Jesus perhaps it's our works that people will see.

Our acts of kindness, of healing, of care, of justice, of feeding the hungry, clothing those who need it. When those things seem too big, it's smiling, being kind to those we live with, study with, work with.

Small steps of grace. 

This is what confounds those who would label Jesus and box him up, the love-in-action of Jesus followers in the big and the small everyday things. 

#nolabels

#loveinaction