“I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?” John 10:32
We've all probably heard the old saying, "No good deed goes unpunished." Jesus must be thinking the same thing. After all the good he has done, the Jews are still plotting to kill him. Ironically, it really isn't that he's doing things on the Sabbath that upsets them, or that the things that he does make it look like he's acting like God. But it is the good works themselves that Jesus has been doing that threatens the Jews. They cannot relate to the love that he shows because they themselves cannot love. They only understand power and since Jesus is not operating within their narrow confines of their control, every time he does something that they cannot do, their sense of security and control erodes a little more and it increases their fear and anger at him. As Christians today we face the same kind of judgment by those who do not have faith and cannot accept that our actions are based on love and the teachings of Jesus. Because we do not conform to their rules, they persecute us and punish us out of their own fear and anger. But we must remain strong in our faith and continue to do the works of the Father, no matter what the world around us thinks.
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