Something Gloriously Grand
John 8:49-50 (The Message) "God intends something gloriously grand here and is making the decisions that will bring it about. I say this with absolute confidence." Like fireworks in the night sky, this Scripture popped off the page as I was reading Jesus' words in the gospel of John last night. To put the verse in context, Jesus is talking with the Jews, who happen to believe that he is crazy...or demon-possessed. Jesus responds to their questions with this statement of "absolute confidence," which makes the Jews walk away nodding their heads and saying, "Yep, he's crazy all right." They didn't quite get it. They just didn't understand what Jesus was talking about. But who am I to blame them when I so often do the same thing? In the midst of trouble, opposition, fear, or struggle, Jesus whispers to me, " God intends something gloriously grand here and is making the decisions that will bring it about ." Yet so often, I think to mys...