Jesus was running the show
May 20
25At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Christ[b]? 27But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.”
30At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come. 31Still, many in the crowd put their faith in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man?”
32The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
The above passage is taken from John chapter 7. I have to say that I find this passage quite amusing in some ways.it starts off by referring to the people that were trying to kill Jesus. Clearly they had been unsuccessful. Then we read in verse 30, that they tried to seize him, but know one laid a hand on him. How did that happen? How was it that was all those people wanting to seize him, not one person was able to even lay a finger on him? The word tells us that it was because his time was not yet come. Jesus was completely in control. He was running the show even though it did not appear to be the case.
The passage continues and says that the chief priests and the Pharisees sent guards to go and capture Jesus but clearly they will also unsuccessful. Jesus was a man, of that there is no doubt. He was human in every way that we are human and he was tempted with the very same temptations that we are tempted with on a daily basis. And yet we know that there was no sin in him. John The Baptist tells us at the beginning of the book of John that Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Jesus came to remove sin and to forgive people and to free people, not to place them in bondage like the law does. When God has a plan for your life, the best possible thing that you can do is to sit back and allow him to work his way in you. Don’t try and kick against it like Jonah, who ended up giving swallowed by a big fish because it will only end up with you being spit out on the shore.
The sooner we stop resisting God and allow him to have his will the better.