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Technology is amazing. You can Google almost any question and find out the answer immediately.
For example, “Can dogs eat bananas?”
“Why do cats purr?”
Or, “How many gallons of water are in the Atlantic Ocean?”
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I Googled that one.
There’s an approximate 82 billion billion gallons of water in the Atlantic Ocean!
Pretty impressive.
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But there are other questions – deeper questions – that Google can’t answer. They’re questions, which even the people in Jesus’ time had to answer.
For example, what’s the meaning of my life? Why am I here? Who’s Jesus? Is he who he says he is – God? Or is he out of his mind?
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Even the ancients knew how to interpret simple things like weather patterns. But not everyone made the effort to discern life’s deeper questions.
This is why Jesus’ calls them hypocrites.
God gives each of us a mind to think, a heart to feel, and a conscience to discern his will. But some in the crowds following Jesus were shallow; they ignored life’s bigger questions, and so missed the meaning of it all.
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I’m sure our minds will be filled with dozens – if not hundreds – of questions today, like why cats purr.
But take the time to contemplate the deeper questions, too.
Perhaps some of the most important being: “Who is Jesus? How has he changed my life? What will it take to follow him today?”
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Then act accordingly.
