“WHY DO YOU NOT KNOW?”

Luke 2:54-56                                           (ESV)

“54 HE (JESUS) also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A shower is coming.' And so it happens.

55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat,' and it happens.

56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but “WHY DO YOU NOT KNOW” how to interpret the present time?”

I’ve often thought that I would have been a might intimidated had I been alive during the time that JESUS walked on the earth.  GOD IN THE FLESH is right in our midst and we walk around like HE is one of the guys.  HE was seemingly always so gracious, saying words that caused people to ponder HIS point.  But this time HE didn’t beat around the bush with telling “the crowds” exactly what HE wanted them to hear, AND KNOW!

Knowing how the weather acts and reacts to certain happenings can be a valuable tool.  Knowing when a Hurricane is going to develop has become a science that many meteorologists are continuously trying to improve upon.  Tornadoes are studied almost as much.  Winter storms are tracked by everyone with great interest, because we don’t want to run out of milk, eggs and bread when the electricity goes out!

But JESUS IS COMING BACK, and very little attention is being paid to getting prepared for HIS return.  JESUS told “the crowds”, “WHY DO YOU NOT KNOW” how to interpret the present time?  Apparently we are more concerned with a hurricane, tornado, or some other weather related phenomenon that we are listening to the warnings of GOD IN THE FLESH?  HIS “forecast” has NEVER been wrong and yet we act as though HIS WORDS don’t apply to us.   

Everybody has been warned! Don’t say that you haven’t.  HIS WORD has been given to us so we can develop a more intimate relationship with HIM, yet we can’t search for answers to the questions of life daily, much less when we are in a crisis!  “WHY DO YOU NOT KNOW” might be because we don’t look at the answers enough?  

When I was going to junior high and high school, we occasionally had some of the answers to homework in the back of the text book.  They were there for everyone one to see, BUT WE HAD TO LOOK!  The answers for life’s questions in THE BOOK!  “WHY DO YOU NOT KNOW” to look for them???