“But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them because he knew all people. He didn’t need anyone to tell him about human nature, for he knew what human nature was.” (John 2:24-25 CEB)
I think it is our human nature that we want to impress others. All of us want to be thought well of by other people. Even Jesus experienced this. The above verses from John follow a time in which Jesus was performing miracles which gained the people’s approval. And while John doesn’t give us a temptation story like the other Gospels, we might view this as Jesus’ battle with temptation.
Pride could have easily gotten the best of him if he had started to believe ‘his own press clippings’. Instead, John tells us that he didn’t ‘trust himself to them’. In my mind, that means he did not allow them to define him. He was defined by God.
I think the thing I like most about these verses is that fact that John tells us that Jesus ‘knew what human nature was’. To me that means that Jesus walked in our shoes and felt our struggles. How amazing is it that we serve a God who has been every place we have been? So no matter what we go through this day or the next, we know that God has been there, and is still there walking along side us. Thanks be to God for that mysterious presence that has always been, is, and will always be with us.
Have a great day!
B
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