We have been reading about the Pharisees and Chief Priests putting political pressure on all of their employees and associates to reject this Christ. After an afternoon and evening of debate, “everyone went to his own house” (John 7:53).
It is a simple sentence that is easily over looked. But its weight is far more important than at first glance. In our homes is where the pretensions fall away. Those who live with us know who we really are. It is there we wrestle with our demons. When we lay our heads down to rest we cannot escape our own thoughts. The pressures come in relentless memories of words spun to impress us. Threats hang over us like clouds of doubts and threatening storms of lost reputations.
It is in the stillness of the night most decisions are formed. We will either cry out to the One who made us or we will turn away into the silent world of unbelief.
