May 6
What to Believe?

John 4:43-54                     New English Translation (NET)

Onward to Galilee

⁴³ After the two days he departed from there to Galilee. ⁴⁴ (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) ⁴⁵ So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

Healing the Royal Official’s Son

⁴⁶ Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick. ⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. ⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!” ⁴⁹ “Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.” ⁵⁰ Jesus told him, “Go home; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

⁵¹ While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live. ⁵² So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.” ⁵³ Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household. ⁵⁴ Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.

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Isn't it difficult in today's world to know "what to believe?"

We are given so much information each and every day, that it becomes a chore to sort it all out.

The studies, reports, reviews, newsletters, books, press conferences.... always feeding us new and "better" information....

We want the truth.... we want it NOW.... and the sources are willing to give it to us... constantly.

How precious is it, to know that we can turn off the media, tune out the current news, pick up our Bible and read the TRUTH!

Unchanging, unshakeable, undeniable.....TRUTH!

When the pressures of the world are overwhelming you~ turn to Jesus.

He holds all truth out to us everyday.

Questions to ponder:

vs 44: Do I need to remind myself that those most familiar with me may find it challenging to receive from me?

vs 48: Do I need a sign, or some miraculous wonder, to stretch my faith out? To believe  God for answers to those seemingly impossible situations in life?

vs 53: has my life been such a witness, that after a life changing, perhaps a near death experience,  every one around me would see and believe in the power of God?