Think Your Smarter Than God?

Luke 7:20-23  “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’” Jesus had just then cured many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and had given sight to many who were blind. And he answered them,“Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them. And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”


Just as John sent some of his disciples to Jesus to ask if he was the one, I think many people question if he is the one. I think many of those people hope for or expect a magic answer, you know if the rapture had happened last night it might have gotten some peoples attention who were asking that question. For the most part the answer they seem to be looking for has to do with what's in it for me. If you are the one help my bank account kind of proof they seek. Or it might be the let's make a deal type of proof they need,  if you are real do this and I promise that. Sometimes they think they know what they really need, as if they are smarter than God. They put a toe in the water looking for exactly what they want and if it isn't instantly what they asked for they quit. I think God's greatest problem with us is that we area self-centered lot, dealing with an other centered God Look at what I am already doing says Jesus, is not that enough proof for you. In Romans St Paul writes, "For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. ²⁰Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse; ²¹for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened." God look around you and you still need proof. Why? Because you love your own answers with impossibly small odds of ever being right in impossibly large numbers of circumstances, that the resulting combinations lead to impossibility, and yet to look to me in faith you'd have to give up your worship of yourself. That is the heart of the matter, you really only desire to worship your self-centered self.