EMPTY HANDED

ACTIVATION APPREHENDED

John GW 7:45-46 When the temple guards returned, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, "Why didn't you bring Jesus?" The temple guards answered, "No human has ever spoken like this man."

  After another bout early this morning, how glad I am that God is not artificial intelligence as is software and computers! I like the usefulness of this technology, especially with my small motor skill handwriting problem, but oh how I despise unseen cyber gremlins and unknown instruction manual writers that think everyone speaks and understands their alien language!

  As a lifelong machinist and toolhead, I can see material in more than one dimension and visualize their proper assemblage, but cannot for one miniscule solder connection or digit picture what’s going on in the humming (Ann tells me it hums. I can no longer hear such.) black box my left ankle is leaning against or the software whiz signaling along its internal affairs.

  Thank God that, though He is the most complex being in existence His life-guide instructions are simple to understand.

  Consider the temple guards sent to arrest Jesus, and their reason for returning empty handed though they knew they would suffer penalty:

1.     They and their families were dependent upon their superiors, the chief priests and Pharisees.

2.     They were trained and hardened to carry out missions without sympathy or conscience.

3.     They were indoctrinated spiritually by their superiors.

  And yet they disobeyed! Why? Could it be that in comparison to the dialog of the chief priests and Pharisees, Jesus spoke wisdom with clarity, power of true authority, and yet with grace?

 EBB4 (Monday, June 30, 2008)