March 2                                                                                John 6: 27-40

 

 

Do you believe everything you read and hear? I don’t. I won’t read the newspaper or listen to the news, because I got frustrated with them a long time ago. I do not believe what they tell me.

 

Often times, I have been at the scene of a house fire or a motor  vehicle accident that a newspaper article covered, and found that  they got the story all wrong. It is as if they didn’t think it was a good enough story, so they added to it, took something out, or rearranged the details, to make the story better for reporting. It has happened enough that I question everything they are reporting.

 

After feeding five thousand people with five small loaves of bread and two small fish, the people themselves follow Jesus across the lake to Capernaum to continue learning from Him. They ask Jesus “What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you?” Were these not the same people on the scene and who saw a miracle and still do not believe? They want more proof. They want a sign before they believe.

 

To believe is to have confidence in the truth without absolute proof.  We do not live in the time when Jesus walked the earth.  We can not sit in front of Him at the temple to hear His teachings but we can still hear His teachings everywhere. He is reaching out to us from the Bible, through our preacher’s Sunday sermons, and throughout all of life, if we only stop to listen to Him. Jesus’ whole life is a 

teaching, a lesson for us follow if we believe He is the way, though we may not see a miraculous sign. There may not be water turning into wine as absolute proof to convince us of who Jesus really is.

 

From my experience, it is after your begin to believe in Jesus that you open your eyes to the miracles of life all around you.

 

 

~ Christina Schoeck