“HE KNEW!”

John 2:23-25                 (ESV)

JESUS Knows What Is in Man

“[23] Now when HE (JESUS) was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many BELIEVED in HIS NAME when they saw the signs that HE was doing. [24] But JESUS on HIS part did not entrust HIMSELF to them, because “HE KNEW” all people [25] and needed no one to bear witness about man, for HE HIMSELF knew what was in man.”

There are people (MANY) who believe that they had something (ANYTHING) to do with their salvation?  They “responded” to the drawing (or wooing) of the HOLY SPIRIT and “gave” their lives to HIM?  I was probably one of the most misinformed people in the world regarding this subject??  That is UNTIL the Brain Hemorrhage of 2007!?!

Formerly, I WAS IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING!!  I was doing my best to change the world, supposedly for HIS GLORY?  But when my beautiful bride found out that I needed medical attention that morning, she and my youngest son carried me to the hospital and entrusted me to the professionals!  I didn’t disagree, but I DID NOT CHOOSE to go where the doctors and nurses were either!!!  I was MOVING TOO QUICKLY to HEAR from HIM!!!

“HE KNEW” what I needed to experience to get me to HEAR that “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:11-13)!  And even almost 19 years later, I STILL have to be reminded that I need to GET ALONE WITH GOD to RECEIVE my instructions from HIM!  “HE KNEW” all people, but most importantly “HE KNEW” this humble servant REQUIRED HIS DIVINE LEADERSHIP in my life to accomplish HIS PLAN!!!

To “claim” that I would have “done it on my own” is as absurd as anything I have ever heard!  My feeble mind WOULD NOT, nor COULD NOT, have conceived what HE has PLANNED (Isaiah 64:4) for me to do FOR HIM!!!  “HE KNEW (from the FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD) (Ephesians 1:4) and I must YIELD to HIS LEADERSHIP to accomplish HIS PLAN!!!