When we meet Jesus, we don’t understand everything right away
John 2:18:
But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.”
“All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
“What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?”
John 2:21-22:
But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.
John 12:12-15:
The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A large crowd of Passover visitors took palm branches and went down the road to meet him.
They shouted,
“Praise God!
Blessing on the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hail to the King of Israel!”
John 12:14-16:
Jesus found a young donkey and rode on it, fulfilling the prophecy that said:
“Don’t be afraid, people of Jerusalem. Look, your King is coming, riding on a donkey’s colt.”
His disciples didn’t understand at the time that this was a fulfillment of prophecy. But after Jesus entered into his glory, they remembered what had happened and realized that these things had been written about him.
John 20:8:
Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed, -- for until then they still hadn’t understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.
What to do when we don't understand:
1. Follow what is clear (it's a LOT!)
2. Ask questions and learn what you can (it's also a LOT!)
3. Live in the tension of trusting God where you don't understand
When we meet Jesus, we don’t understand everything right away
