John 7:30-31 New International Version (NIV)
30 At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a
hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 Still, many
in the crowd believed in him. They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he
perform more signs than this man?”
The enemies of Jesus had tried repeatedly to seize him. Yet
the Gospel of John reminds us again and again that no one could seize Jesus
until he offered himself up to them. Jesus followed God's timetable just as
carefully as he obeyed his Father's will. So we can know with assurance that
when Jesus died, he did so to redeem us and obey his Father's will, not because
he was powerless to defend himself. Jesus' death is a voluntary sacrifice, a
triumph of his obedience to his Father's will over his own will for
preservation. He obeyed and we are saved! He offered himself as a sacrifice so
we could be adopted into the Father's family!
Thought for today:
Can you and do you submit to righteousness and right acts?
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