11.04.25 Mereka Tidak Mau Percaya

Friday 5th week of Lent "Jn 10:31-42" The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?" The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God." Jesus answered them... "do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." No matter what miracle or even how many miracles they saw, they would not believe. They were blind because they didn't want to see. They wanted to stone Jesus because being a man, He made himself God, when it was exactly the opposite: being God, He made Himself a man! The truth is that these Pharisees didn't want to believe in Him. Believing in Jesus would entail changing their way of life. This happens sometimes with those who don't want to accept the moral law because it is not 'convenient' for them. They don't want to know the truth – so they can carry on doing what they want. If a driver is stopped by the police for speeding, it is no use him saying, 'sorry officer, I didn't know there was a speed limit'. Like it or not, and whether you know it or not... there is a speed limit. It isn't there to take the fun out of driving; it's there so that everyone can get to their destination safely. An old man thought that his wife was losing her hearing. To check it out he approached her from behind while she was sitting in her lounge chair, and whispered, "Honey, can you hear me?" He got no response. He moved a little closer and repeated softly, "Honey, do you hear me?" No response. Finally he moved right next to her and said, "Honey, can you hear me now?" This time she looked up with surprise in her eyes and replied, "For the third time, Henry, yes, I can hear you!" It was Henry, then, who really had the hearing problem. It was the Pharisees who were deaf, not Jesus who wasn't 'sound'. My Mother, intercede for me so that I may never become blind or deaf to the Will of God.