Sometimes, when you decide you don't like someone, you'll come up with any argument to put them in a bad light. Every once in a while, you haven't thought it all the way through because you're angry, so you just say the first thing that comes to your mind and hope no one picks it apart. Usually, we get away with this -- I feel like we're not a society that delves deeply into arguments anyway. We tend to accept whatever is presented at face value, which is an entirely different problem for another day.
The Pharisees are doing this with Jesus -- they're mad at him, so they pick up whatever objection comes to mind first.
Only Jesus has time to delve deeply into things. He can pick apart the flaws in their logic. He can ask hard questions.
When we come to Jesus, we need to be prepared to think, to be challenged, to study, to learn. Jesus asks much of us -- all of our hearts, minds, and bodies. However we come, we are then challenged to build a foundation of faith, to grow, day by day, to learn. Sometimes, it can be tough, and we want something easier, but Jesus is building us into people that will live forever. Of course that's hard! It's supposed to be!
So let us engage with all of heart, mind, and strength, and Jesus will build us up, not tear us down. In our churches and communities, may we also be the kind of people that build one another up!
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