Proof Or Love?
As is usually the case with my quiet times, there are often words that jump out at me from the verses I read. Today it was ‘prove.’ “Then the Jews demanded of him, ‘What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?’” John 2:18 Jesus had just finished whipping the tar out of the merchants for selling animals for sacrifice within His Father’s Temple. There is a lot more behind all of that - the area they were set up in was where the gentiles’ were allowed to pray so to the Jews it was not really important, it wasn’t in the temple building… just within the outer walls, and it was necessary for them to provide a way for sojourners to purchase their sacrifices - but the authority of Jesus was being questioned instead of the Jewish misuse of His temple. Why do humans always need proof? My first thought is so that our pride is not pummeled by our mistaken belief in a truth that turns out to be false. So that we remain free of “blemish.&quo