John 7

The Jews have three pilgrimage festivals every year, meaning that all the Jews living outisde of the city were required to come in to the city for these festivals. John 7 takes place during one of these festivals, the festival of Booths. Jesus, like all other Jews, goes in to town for the festival and ends up teaching in the temple.

The town is full of people, and so is the temple. The people listening in the temple are amazed at what Jesus had to say, they say to him "You have a demon!" (Verse 20)

Jesus was in the temple, talking to the religious people, and they thought he was possessed by a demon. They had created a religion that worked for them, and they had created a God that worked for them. They were not interested in hearing anything different.

The world was not ready for Jesus when he came; they were not ready to hear what he had to say. They thought they knew all the answers and they had no interest in listening to the ramblings of a peasant from Galilee. They thought he must have been sent from the devil to try and trick the religious people.

The world is upside down when the religious people can look God in the face and think he's from satan.

The world is upside down the minute that religious people think they have all the answers. When we think we know it all, we claim to have figured out God. Any god we fully understand is a god that we have created. And any opposition to the god we create must come from the devil, right?

Truth is, God is bigger than we can comprehend. We will never fully understand God in this life, but we can seek Him and know Him a little more every day.

The first step to knowing God more is admitting that we Christians don't have all the answers.

Then again, maybe we're still not ready for Jesus to come.