Matthew 11:18-19
(KJV)
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
It didn’t matter what
John or Jesus did; people had an opinion and voiced it. They exaggerated in
both instances. John didn’t socialize and he led a moral yet rugged life of abstinence.
The people exaggerated it and said he must have been demon possessed. Jesus
however, did socialize and they labeled him as a glutton and a drunk – not to
mention he befriended the lowest scourges of society. The Lord said that wisdom
was justified in both approaches and methods in reaching the people with the
gospel of the kingdom.
We all must remember
that what people say is not ever to determine our mission for Christ. What they
say about you is not the definition we are to live by. Whose voice we listen to
will be the one who shapes us. People are fickle; they will say one thing one
day and say something completely different the next day. The same people who
cried Hosanna one day were the same people who later said crucify him.
I heard it said one
time “opinions are like armpits, everyone has them and some stink!”
Build your life on the
unchanging Word of God.
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