HOW CAN ONE NOT SEE YOU?

It’s interesting to sit and listen to people as they share how they rationally reject Jesus.  They use words of ideology like ‘I’m no longer Christocentric’ as if Jesus was a philosophy rather than a person with flesh and blood who lived here on earth.  At times like these I am grateful I’m not smart in the worldly things of this life.  I am grateful to be like the shepherds, the fishermen, the poor and the sick who met Jesus face to face and enjoyed a friendly encounter and a relationship with him.  I wouldn’t want to be alive without knowing and loving You as a reality in my life and having an ongoing one on one relationship with You.  What would be the point of being alive?

In reading Matthew 2:4, 5 and 17:10-13, it is obvious that the scribes and the high priests knew the truth written about the coming of Jesus, and yet they totally missed his arrival.  Not much has changed.  In the ways of the Spirit knowledge and reason must be rooted in revelation and relationship.  The shepherds listened to the angel that appeared to them; they believed and then went to see and be with the child in the manger, knowing it was Christ the Lord.  The wise men saw the star and followed it to see and be with the child born in the manger, knowing that he was the king of the Jews.

The scribes and high priests had their books in which the prophesies were written; they missed the event entirely and would later crucify the one of whom their books spoke.

God speaks and reveals himself to everyone, but it is those who are humble enough to listen, believe, and come to him that actually hear and see him and want to be with him.