It All Points to Jesus

Friday, December 26th, 2025

9:32 am

Good morning! Today I am in John 5:31-47. Here Jesus is still talking to the religious leaders that is in the crowd around Him. He tells them that He does not testify on His own behalf, for it would not be valid, but that someone else also testified about Him, and everything he said was true. That John the Baptist was a burning and shining lamp. They listened to him and even investigated him, and everything he said about Him was true. But He has an even greater witness than John. His teachings and His miracles are His witnesses, for the Father gave Him these works to accomplish, and they prove that He sent Him. And the Father that sent Him also testifies about Him. He goes on to tell them that they have never heard or seen the Father face to face, and they don't have His message in their hearts because they do not believe Him, the one the Father sent to them. He tells them that they search the Scriptures because they believe that the Scriptures give them eternal life, but the Scriptures point to Him, yet they refuse to come to Him to receive eternal life. He tells them that their approval of Him means nothing to Him because they do not have God's love within them because He comes to them in His Father's name, but they reject Him. But they gladly welcome those who come in their own name. He tells them it is no wonder that can't believe because they gladly honor each other, but don't care about the honor that comes from the one who alone is God. He tells them that Moses is the one who will accuse them before the Father because they put their hopes in Moses, but if they truly believed Moses, they would believe Him for Moses wrote about Him. But since they don't believe what Moses wrote, how could they believe what He says.

Wow, those verses are hard to take. The religious leaders did not believe Jesus was who He said He was, but they claimed to believe Moses. Following Moses laws completely, but missing who the Scriptures were truly speaking about, Jesus. They were so stuck in their religious laws, that they missed Jesus. We can get so stuck in our beliefs about what is right, we miss what God is doing in our lives. A couple of the ways we get stuck in this religious mindset is when we start going to church because we are told we are supposed to, but we miss the reason why we go, we just go to check it off our box of things to do. Or when we get into the good habit of getting into God's Word, the Bible, everyday, but we don't allow God to change our lives. Knowing that what we are doing is right, or what God wants us to do, but we miss why we are doing them. We become like these religious leaders that claimed to believe the Scriptures, but missed Jesus completely. But everything Jesus did while He was on earth, testified about who He was. Everything He did showed us who He was and why He came.

Are you like these religious leaders, just spending time in God's Word or in a church, just to check off a box, or are you allowing God to change your life? God wants to get you unstuck from the same cycle the religious leaders were in. He wants you to know Him. He wants to give you more than what this life offers. God offers us eternity. That eternity with Him is only offered through the one He sent to us, Jesus. Allow God to transform your mind today. When you get into God's Word or go to church, ask God to show you why you are there, or what He would like to change in your life. That is how we allow Him to work in our lives.