Jn 10:31-42
31The Jews again picked up rocks to stone [Jesus]. 32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?” 33The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.” 34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’? 35If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside, 36can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
37If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me; 38but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize [and understand] that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39[Then] they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power.
40He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained. 41Many came to him and said, “John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” 42And many there began to believe in him.
The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus. There are times when we are very brave and in a fighting mood. We want to change the world, to conquer heights, to prove things, to move mountains, or to throw rocks. But this cannot go on forever. We cannot always be in a defensive and offensive mood.
Time will come when we must face and accept things as they are, wait instead of pushing, understand instead of condemning, and sit instead of cursing. Then we can relax and be at peace with ourselves, knowing that we have done our part, have not cowered while others backed away, have given and taken while keeping the faith and believing.
Jesus lives not to push a teaching but to share God’s life.