What Was Jesus Thinking--What Made Him Act That Way

Let's lay some groundwork.

Isaiah 55:11--So shall my Word be that goeth forth out of my mouth:  it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that I please, and it will prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Jesus firmly believed (as we all should) that whatever God said was true and would come to pass just like He said it would. The entire history of the Jewish nation was built on that principle. God said for the sun to shine and hasn't told it to stop yet. He said for the stars to shine and they have stopped shining. He told all the animals to multiply and they haven't stopped yet.  And that's just the easy stuff.

God told Noah to build an ark because He was going to flood the earth with water. It had never rained a drop before.  But that didn't keep the rain and the flood from coming.  When Abraham was 75 God told him that he and Sarah were going to have a son. God even waited for 25 more years. It would have been hard enough at 75 much less 100. But it happened like God said.

After 400 years of being slaves, God brought the Hebrews out of bondage to the mightiest nation on the earth at that time. And they didn't have to fight. They were poor but came out extremely rich. And then God destroyed the Egyptian army all by Himself. 

And the list goes on. Jesus knew the history of the children of God. When things looked like they would vanish from the face of the earth, God brought something to pass that made everybody have to say, "That had to be God."

He knew from Mary and Joseph that He had been born of a virgin just as God said in Isaiah 7:14. He knew that He was born in Bethlehem just like God said in Micah 5:2. He knew that He was of the lineage that God said He would be in Genesis, Numbers and 2 Samuel. He knew that He had lived in Egypt for a while like God said in Hosea. He knew that there was a massacre in Bethlehem around the time of His birth just like God said in Jeremiah. He was called a Nazarene just like God said in Isaiah 11. 

It was only natural that Jesus' thinking process would work like this. Everything God has said about me has come to pass so far. So, I can rest assured that my future is going to come to pass just like God said.

Jesus was not going to be surprised when: He would bring light to the Gentiles--Isaiah 9, He would be a prophet--Deuteronomy 18, He would be declared the Son of God--Psalm 2, He would speak in parables--Psalm 78, He would heal the brokenhearted--Isaiah 61 and much more.

Then He knew that He shouldn't be surprised when:  He would be betrayed--Psalm 41 and Zechariah 11, He would be falsely accused--Psalm 35, He knew that He should be quiet before His accusers--Isaiah 53, He knew that He would be able to heal people--Isaiah 35, He knew that He would be crucified--Isaiah 53, He knew that He would rise again--Psalms 16 and 49. Jesus anticipated that a lot of other things would happen only because His Father had said so. 

He knew that God was in charge and the humans weren't. Now hold on for a hot news flash. Here is something that probably never dawned on you before. GOD DID NOT HAVE TO ASK THE DEVIL'S PERMISSION THE DEVIL HAD NO SAY SO IN ANY OF THE PLANS. JESUS DIDN'T HAVE TO BIND OR LOOSE ANYTHING OR WORRY ABOUT A HINDRANCE BECAUSE GOD'S WORD WAS THE LAW OVER THE DEVIL, ALSO.

When the people of His own home town wanted to throw Him off a cliff, He thought, 'This isn't the way that I'm supposed to die.' And he walked right through the middle of them. That was pretty gutsy. When the people accused Him of being full of the devil, Jesus knew different. He just thought, 'I'm the Messiah and I'll die and rise again. What do these guys know. I'll go find some sick folk to heal.' When the religious people gave Him a hard time, Jesus thought about His Father's Word that did not return to the Father void,  'I know they are going to crucify Me. But, I know that I'll rise again and create a way so the blood bought mankind can once again fellowship with the Father.'

Jesus never let what anyone said or did trouble His heart. Instead His thought pattern was always, it's going to be just like my Father said.

Spend some time meditating on what God's Word has promised you. Spend some time in the presence of the Holy Spirit and grow on the inside. Then you will be like Psalm 1. You'll be like a tree this is planted by the rivers of water. You'll bring forth your fruit in due season.

We'll go over some of the promises in the next blog.