ODB: Surprise!
October 31, 2011
God broke into human history to offer us the gift of eternal life.
READ: John 1:6-13
Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! —John 1:29
A writer for The Washington Post conducted an experiment to test people’s perception. He asked a famous violinist to perform incognito at a train station in the nation’s capital one January morning. Thousands of people walked by as he played, but only a few stopped to listen. After 45 minutes, just $32 had been dropped into the virtuoso’s open violin case. Two days earlier, this man—Joshua Bell—had used the same $3.5 million Stradivarius for a sold-out concert where people paid $100 a seat to hear him perform.
The idea of a person not being recognized for his greatness isn’t new. It happened to Jesus. “He was in the world,” John said, “. . . and the world did not know Him” (John 1:10). Why did people who had been expecting the Messiah give Jesus such a cold reception? One reason is that they were surprised. Just as people today don’t expect famous musicians to play in railway stations, the people in Jesus’ day didn’t expect Messiah to be born in a stable. They also expected Him to be a political king—not the head of a spiritual kingdom.
The people in the first century were blinded to God’s purpose in sending Jesus to this world. He came to save people from their sins (John 1:29). Receive God’s surprising gift of salvation that He offers freely to you today.
— C. P. Hia
Source: Our Daily Bread
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Audiences don’t think that a well-known person will put himself on the street to play his master piece. The situation surrounding the person plus the dressing in the public was not that appealing to the public at large. In this regards, Christ Jesus was not look upon as someone great. This reminded of what Isaiah said about God’s humbled Servant in chapter 53.
I guess its more of that people don’t think that God would come down on to earth in the form of not only a man, but one who did not hold any form of earthly power.