Most of us are influenced by our culture and the way that we were raised. When it comes to making decisions in our everyday life it takes a concentrated effort to make them based on God’s way of doing things and not our own. We can trust Holy Spirit to teach us those ways and guide us in our lives if we listen closely to His still, small voice abiding in us.
God's ways are so above ours.
We need to be wise but as gentle as the Lamb of God who knows all of us, inside and out, and loves us still. He sees our heart.
Matthew 9:4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
There is a connection between daily miracles and gratitude. Meister Eckhart says that if you only learn one prayer in your whole life, learn this one: "Thank you.”
Because being glad to be alive (and yes, even in the midst, of turmoil and noise, or grief, or broken dreams,), allows us to spill light to a world hungry for grace. Sabbath Moments
Nothing stunts spiritual development more than a flea market view of God. If we think he is puny enough to need our help, to negotiate with us, we’ll soon abandon our pursuit of him. If, on the other hand, we see God as he truly is – holy and high apart, transcendent and resplendent – then we will spend a lifetime doing what we will do for eternity—exploring the beauty and riches of our heavenly Father. Max Lucado
John 2:23–25
23 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did. 24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, 25 and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. The New King James Version
John’s purpose in recording Jesus’ miracles was for people to believe and have eternal life.
Commit is the same Greek word translated as believe. There is a play on words here. These individuals trusted Jesus, but Jesus did not entrust Himself to them. Jesus fully understood the depth of trust of those who were following Him; some would stay, but many would fall away. The NKJV Study Bible
The Greek text uses the word pisteuō here for entrust. John uses a wordplay here, describing how “many believed” (pisteuō in Greek) in Jesus but Jesus does not trust or believe (pisteuō) them in return.
Jesus is divinely appointed, so the glory of other people is not His concern—He receives His glory from God the Father. This verse provides the transition to Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus and prepares the reader for Jesus’ divine insight into Nicodemus’ spiritual needs. Faithlife Study Bible
Our Lord knew all men, their nature, dispositions, affections, designs, so as we do not know any man, not even ourselves. He knows his crafty enemies, and all their secret projects; his false friends, and their true characters. He knows who are truly his, knows their uprightness, and knows their weaknesses.
We know what is done by men; Christ knows what is in them, he tries the heart. Beware of a dead faith, or a formal profession: carnal, empty professors are not to be trusted, and however men impose on others or themselves, they cannot impose on the heart-searching God. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
John 2:11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
John 6:61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you?
John 6:64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him.
John 13:11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”
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