“ESCAPED!”

 John 10:39                    (ESV)

“[39] Again they (the Jews according to John 10:24) sought to arrest HIM, but HE “ESCAPED” from their hands.”

Misinterpreting words can lead to tumultuous results!!  When a word is used in Scripture, I look at other translations to see how they interpret the text.  In most translations that I have seen and used, the word “ESCAPED” used in John 10:39 was letting people know that THE CREATOR wasn’t taken by “the Jews”.  HE apparently had a timeline that HE needed to follow and “this world” had NO authority to change HIS PLAN!!  JESUS left even HIS closest friends TO BE ALONE WITH GOD several times.  Yes, GOD IN THE FLESH HAD TO SPEND TIME ALONE WITH HIS HEAVENLY FATHER!!!

JESUS had the capability to escape from everything and everyone, and AT ANYTIME!  Yet several times HE “withdrew” from HIS earthly demands to commune with THE FATHER!!  Do we take the time from our “busyness” to, not only get directions from GOD, but PRAISE HIM FOR WHO HE IS???  HE has put me in a “position” in the past where I had NO CHOICE but to BE STILL and LISTEN to HIM!!

No matter how “busy” the circumstances of your life becomes, GOD IS STILL GOD!!  While JESUS wasn’t required to yield to earthly interruptions, HE “willingly” (John 10:17-18) laid down HIS LIFE according THE PLAN!!  Yet humanity as a whole doesn’t have the default to submit to HIS GUIDANCE, even when difficulties arise!  We have the PERFECT opportunity to “ESCAPE” from trouble, but we fail to RUN to HIM???  

ALMIGHTY GOD, please OPEN our EYES to understand that we have been provided an “ESCAPE” from the snares of “the enemy”!!!