Mark 8: 11-13 New Living Translation 11 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had arrived, they came and started to argue with him. Testing him, they demanded that he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority. 12 When he heard this, he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why do these people keep demanding a miraculous sign? I tell you the truth, I will not give this generation any such sign.” 13 So he got back into the boat and left them, and he crossed to the other side of the lake. Yesterday I was watching David Blaine an incredibly talented magician/illusionist on Netflix. He was visiting the homes of famous people and performing his world famous street magic. This kind of magic is not all smoke and mirrors, it's in your face and blows people's minds. You're watching it knowing it's just magic but your still thinking somehow it's supernatural. I still remember the first time I watched him. I was a teenager and he was on David Letterman doing card tricks right at David's desk. As I watched what he was doing I said to myself, this is from the devil, just because it was too much for me to take in that a person can just learn how to do tricks like these.
This is me, now imagine people 2,000 years ago and what they must have thought about what Jesus did. There were those who thought as I did about David Blaine that Jesus was doing his miracles by the power of the devil, then you have the guys from today's Bible reading that wanted to see a miracle for themselves. They argued, tested and demanded from Jesus but He simply sighed deeply and left them. Let us be careful that we aren't saying to ourselves, "If only He would just..." Jesus is not our genie in bottle, He has already proven Himself to be what He said by His miracles and they are recorded for us in His word. Let's remember Jesus words to Thomas who doubted and was granted physical proof, " You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me." John 20:29 I am blessed because I haven't seen Him yet I believe.
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