Grains of Sand

Google Images “In God we trust; all others pay cash” is a tongue-in-cheek slogan taken from the inscription on American coinage. It testifies to our innate mistrust of everyone, though it could be argued that most people don’t even trust God all that much. After the confrontation in the temple (John 2:13-16), Jesus stayed in Jerusalem for the Passover. While He was there the text tells us that He did many miracles (2:23) and people believed. That sounds wonderful. When that happens in our churches we get all excited and try to modestly boast about how the Lord is moving among us. Oddly enough, Jesus didn’t make a big deal about the growing “body count” of these “converts.” The text says: “ But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. He did not need man’s testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man ” (2:24, 25). The King James version uses the word “ commit ” rather than “ entrust .” The word means, among other things:  to think to be true, to be per...