This time it’s Isaiah’s turn to be right. This old guy Isaiah had predicted years before; that even though the people around Jesus would see what he did, they would ignore who he was. And worse still these guys not only couldn’t see Jesus was the Son of God because of their hatred, they were even out to kill him. All too often that happens today. People around us can see God. They can see God in his wonderful creation around us. They can see God in the things you do. They can see God in the things that happen in their life’s. But they choose to ignore him, they choose to be blind, they choose to have hard hearts. So what should our reaction be to our mates and family that are like that? Do we grab the Bible and quote large passages at them every time something goes wrong in their life? Do we tell them they are sinners and are going to hell? Well there may well be the odd time where it might be right to do this with gentleness, but what was Jesus most common reaction? Well in this passage he says that he does not reject them, and that he didn’t come to this world to reject them. No Jesus came to save the world not reject it. Jesus just kept on keeping on. Jesus kept on praying to his Father about the people he came to save, and eventually go to the cross for. We just need to keep on keeping on; we just need to pray to God about our friends.
