Devotion for April 8, 2012

[Arendt Rebecca]

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Prove your Authority Then the Jews demanded of him, What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?  John 2:18 When I was a child, every grownup was an authority.  When I went to school, every teacher was respected (though not always liked).  We had one male teacher who was short and stocky and needed very little provocation to slam a student up against the lockers and dress him down publicly, humiliating him in front of other students.  He did this often enough that it had became common.  He almost always picked on a football or basketball player who towered over him in size to demonstrate that he might be short, but he was a teacher with authority.  I was both shocked and humored when I learned that about four or five years after I graduated, he did the something to another male student who picked him up and threw him out a window! It's incorrect to prove your authority by demeaning others.  It is just as wrong to request that Jesus prove his authority by doing a miracle.  Since Jesus was not a priest or Levite, what authority could he have to eject these merchants from their place of trade?  "If you are doing this in the authority of God, show us a miracle so that we might accept your authority."  Actually, they had just experienced the miracle.  What they had been doing had continued for a long period of time, and Jesus, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, was the one to take action. The modern idea is to challenge authority, to question it.  After reading this, it doesn't seem so modern.       To order, please send $14.95 (plus 2.95 S&H) Click the "Buy Now" button to purchase using Paypal or send a check to: Russell Eggert Ministries 6 Marsham Drive Marlton, NJ 08053 (Please include shipping address) Copyright 2011 Russell Eggert Ministries

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