Complaining...

September 14, 2011

John 6:38-41

V 41 So the Jews grumbled about him…

In the NKJ version of the bible the word complained is used instead of grumbled. The Jews in this verse were listening to Jesus tell them who He was; the Son of God who had been sent to do His Father’s work. Those in the crowd who were listening to Him were upset because He was putting Himself on equal footing with God. However, I’m sure their upset rested more in the fact that Jesus was a threat to their authority than their anger on God’s behalf. So, they complained. That’s a human reaction to something that happens that we don’t like, isn’t it. Something that we haven’t planned for or something that will cause us to change what we believe happens and we immediately start complaining. Here these people we talking to Jesus and all they could think to do was complain. How easy it is for us to judge them and for us to say we wouldn’t have done the same thing? But we probably would have…