"HID HIMSELF FROM THEM!"

John 12:36-43                                           (ESV)

"36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." The Unbelief of the People when JESUS had said these things, HE departed and "HID HIMSELF FROM THEM".

37 Though HE had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in HIM,

38 so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "LORD, WHO has believed what HE heard from us, and to whom has the arm of THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?" 

39 THEREFORE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE. For again Isaiah said,

40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they SEE with their eyes, and UNDERSTAND with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them." 

41 Isaiah said these things because he saw HIS glory and spoke of HIM.

42 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in HIM, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;

43 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from GOD."

There are many people who REJECT JESUS CHRIST as being the Son of GOD, and many more who REJECT the idea that there is any ALMIGHTY all together.   It should come as no surprise that most of these people actually think that they have a superior understanding of finances, business, health, and everything else about life, when in reality they been HIDDEN FROM THEM!  

The are many places in scripture that JESUS "HID HIMSELF FROM THEM".  To be able to SEE JESUS for WHO HE really is, one must have their EYES OPENED and the TRUTH REVEALED to them.  Many people believe that they are better than others simply because they BELIEVE and attempt to live a life that is better than others.  Reading 1 Timothy 1:15, or Isaiah 64:6, or John 6:44 causes me to understand that if GOD ALMIGHTY didn't pursue me, I would be so vile and pathetic that I wouldn't stand a chance of being BORN AGAIN!  

The people JESUS was speaking about in the passage of scripture above COULD NOT BELIEVE, as they had chosen to rely on their own wisdom and knowledge to carry out them through this world, instead of depending upon a HOLY GOD to guide and direct their lives, to Glorify HIM!  JESUS said in John 12:36 "While you have the LIGHT, believe in the LIGHT, that you may become sons of LIGHT."  Many prefer living in darkness for living in the LIGHT would require them to allow JESUS to navigate them through life, something that they aren't willing to do just yet!

To be one of the CHOSEN doesn't mean that we are better than anyone else, it only means that we have been "called out of darkness into HIS marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9) to be used by HIM.  Having our UNDERSTANDING enlightened to SEE ALMIGHTY GOD pursuing us has to be a miracle in itself!  And I have had my EYES opened lately that I have been BLESSED in my life to NUMEROUS miracles, so I speak from experience!  

I wouldn't want to be one who JESUS "HID HIMSELF FROM THEM"!  To know that HE has CHOSEN to use me is one of the biggest miracles HE has performed in my life!  Being "blinded" is a choice that will cost many for an eternity!  Please don't elect to not SEE THE TRUTH!!!