Our text for today is John 12:37:
“But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him.”
Jesus gave sight to the blind, feed 5,000 with a few loaves and fish, cured the lepers, and walked on water, yet many people did not believe in Him. In fact the miracle right before this verse was the undeniable miracle when Jesus raised a dead man. Even his enemies did not deny the miracle and yet, “they did not believe in him.”
Why O, Why?
The truth is that there will alway be those who will hunt a way not to believe in what is obvious. It was true then and it is true today.
It reminds me of the story of the man who build a locomotive. As he began to build it, his neighbor came by and said, “It is too big, you will never get it built.”
The man worked for months and months and got it built. When it was build, his neighbor came by and said, “That thing is too heavy. You will never get it on the track. Again he worked hard and finally got it on the track.
Again the neighbor came by spewing his negativity. “You’ll never get it moving. It is jus too big.”
By and by, he got his train moving. The neighbor finally told him. “Well, you will never get it stopped.”
Jesus was surrounded by people who simply were not going to believe. Even as he was on the cross, the unbelievers cried out, “Come down from the cross and we will believe.” No! They would not. They were the unbelievers. That is who they were.
Those people still exist today. We also must not let them stop us from doing what needs to be done.
Lonnie Davis