Notice on a slight format change:

Except for July 2012, these are mostly a collection of current devotional notes.

July 2012 is a re-write of old quiet times. My second child was born Nov 11, 1987 with multiple birth defects. I've been re-reading my QT notes from that time in my life, and have included them here. They cover the time before the birth and the few years immediately after the birth. They are tagged "historical." I added new insights and labeled them: ((TODAY, dd mmm yy)).

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

QT 17 May 17, Matt 21:14-16, The elite only want their narrative followed

Matthew 21:14–16 (ESV) — 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
“ ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise’?”

NOTE: In Matthew's account, we have long passed the stage of honest inquiry in the story. The people see and believe, but the intelligent and elite want it stopped. They want to suppress the thought that Jesus is the Son of David, the long-awaited Messiah. They want to insert their own interpretation of events. They probably considered the people unintelligent and repeating fake news. They were the elite, it was their job to tell the people what to think and how to think. At one time, they investigated the claims of Jesus (ultimately determining his power came from Satan), but they have so hardened their hearts that no miracles or signs or facts or different view of events will change their mind. They have written the script, the meme, and they are committed to it. Today, the same thing is happening. What is right is now wrong, and wrong is considered right. Gender, God's creation of man in his image, male and female, is redefined from a physical creation to an emotional feeling. Marriage, God's joining the two unique sexes into one being has been redefined. The elite hate God or any idea that God might exist. They are so blinded that anything that does not agree with their definition of the world is called a lie or fake news. How blind we are to reality. How sad the depth to which we have fallen. And somehow we think the world is getting better …

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