I can't remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, but I can still remember mean things people said about me a few decades ago. The human mind is amazing, right? We zero in on the negative things people say, while often the good things wash right over.
Here, Jesus is being accused of all sorts of things. We remember that Jesus is perfect, but that doesn't stop them from making false accusations. Jesus is calm in the face of it all -- he is completely confident in his identity as a beloved child of God. He has no fear of false accusations. He knows that everything is held in God's hand.
May we find the same courage to ignore the false and malicious things people say about us, and may it lead us to a place of peace, where we don't worry about the negative things coming from others, and we focus instead on the fact that God loves us and wants more for us than we can possibly ask or imagine.
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