Then they were trying again to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

John 10:39 CSB

Jesus was having a convo with the Jewish leaders, and they didn't agree with what he had to say. In v 31 they were preparing to stone Jesus, kill him with rocks. 

In v 33 they tell us why - blasphemy - claiming to be God. 

This was not just some heated theological discussion going on here, they'd already seized him at least once, a group of men prepared to kill another becuase of who he claimed to be, becuase of his words. 

Words matter.

Ideas matter.

Jesus told them don't just listen to my words but see what I've been doing, my life speaks of who God is.

But for this group of people their ideas were the ones that should prevail. 

I don't think Jesus breaks their grip with strength, does a runner becuase he's stronger and faster, he shows them that he is God by just walking away from their grasp. A miracle worked not just in front of them, but in them. 

A group of people had Jesus in their grip. 

And then didn't.

So close to God. Yet so clouded by their own ideas of what God should be like they literally had him in their hands and didn't know it. 

I wonder as I meet someone, an image bearer of God, how easy it is to miss the divine, because this person doesn't fit my idea of what God should be like. 

#monday

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