Our Little Secret That God Knows and Doesn’t Like

John 6:25 – When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

John 6:26 – Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.

John 6:27 – Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

After Jesus fed the five thousand men plus many others, He crossed the lake to the other side unknown to the crowd because it was late evening. The disciples went by boat and Jesus followed later on in the night walking on water. The crowd was satisfied and it was late at night, they didn’t notice where Jesus and the disciples had gone to.

Sometimes we too get full and satisfied we don’t notice what God is doing. We are full and satisfied we don’t notice the world is about to end. We are full and satisfied we don’t notice that God is about to abandon us for ignoring Him because we are full and satisfied.

Being full and satisfied reveals that it was our aim and we don’t really care about Jesus. When we were desperate and jobless we prayed earnestly, but now we are financially stable, we mumble incoherent prayers just for the record. We are full and satisfied. We are not desperate or interested in God. We are full and satisfied, now the prayers are too long and tiring and sermons too long and irrelevant according to us. The problem is we are full and satisfied.

You prayed a lot for a marriage partner. You attended church events. Now you are happily married with kids and you have slowed down on faith matters. You are full and satisfied. You don’t notice what God is doing. You don’t notice church programs designed to help you. You sail through church like a zombie, just for the record and social interest but nothing spiritual.

You prayed and focused on physical recovery. Now that it is no longer an issue, you are full and satisfied. You no longer follow the Master.

Why aren’t you praying as much? Why aren’t you interested in church programs as you used to? Why aren’t you reading the scriptures as much? Why are the things of God no longer interesting to you? You can give clever answers that sound deep and well thought out but God knows your little secret. You can blame hypocrisy in the church. You can blame church leaders. You can have a theory against church beliefs and practices. You can cleverly doubt the church. You can also be nice and promise to improve, knowing very you won’t. God knows your little secret and He doesn’t like it.

The next day the full and satisfied people got hungry and needy. Some day the prodigal son will run out of money and will remember home. Some day what causes our spiritual apathy and arrogance will run out. When this full and satisfied people got hungry, they started looking for Jesus.

They were looking for Jesus to address the end of their being full and satisfied. They were not looking for Jesus because they loved Him. They didn’t love Jesus nor care about His mission. They were only focused on being full and satisfied. This was their little secret.

When they eventually found Jesus the next day across the lake, they were glad. Their gladness had a secret behind it. They were not glad to meet Jesus, no! They were glad that they would be full and satisfied again. This was their little secret.

They approached Jesus with small talk of innocent friendship and care in order to conceal their secret. They seemed concerned and asked Jesus how He got here. They called Him Rabbi, a honorable title for a religious teacher and leader with a following, reputation and respected. They were flattering Jesus with titles and sign of concern. “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

There are people who flatter others in order to get something out of them. There are people who we flatter in texts, calls and meetings because they have power and influence that can affect us. The flatter, the praise and use of high titles hides a secret that Jesus knows and doesn’t like. “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

Jesus responded by saying to them that He knew their little secret and didn’t like it. Jesus told them, all these is about the bread and fish you ate yesterday. Jesus told them all the searching for Him and niceties were powered by desire to be full and satisfied again. Jesus made it clear that He knew they didn’t care about Him nor His mission. Jesus refused to be flattered. “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus knew their little secret and didn’t like it.

Don’t flatter people with a secret agenda yet you have no concern for them. If the person wasn’t rich and or in position of influence, would you use the same address and approach? “Rabbi, when did you get here?” God doesn’t like hypocrisy.

Don’t get flattered and think you are loved. It could be about the office you hold or the money you have. Without those you would never hear those humble words of praise and concern. “Rabbi, when did you get here?” There is a secret behind being loved by everyone and being shown immense respect.

Jesus exposed the little secret that He didn’t like. Jesus told them that they didn’t love Him or His mission. Jesus told them all these that looks like passion for religious things and a love for God is about being full and satisfied. “Rabbi, when did you get here?” All these praises and worship are about bread and fish and nothing about truly loving God.

Jesus still knows the little secret and He doesn’t like it. He knows we want what He offers but we don’t want Him. He knows we are fake worshippers. Fake religious leaders. Fake singers. Fake in praise. We are after something material.

Jesus knows that if He told us to go sell everything and follow Him, we would disappear never to return, because our approaching Him and praises, calling Him Rabbi, are fake. If He demanded that we keep the Sabbath or change our lifestyle or forgive our enemies or love our spouses and submit to them, we wouldn’t do it because we are faking Christianity. We want good health, money, peace, happiness, but we don’t want to do what Jesus demands. We have a little secret and He doesn’t like it.

God has exposed our little secret that He doesn’t like. He demands a genuine relationship with us. A relationship that will not be based on what He offers but who He is to us. A relationship where we are willing to do what He says even if it is inconvenient. A relationship where we would relate with God even if He never provided anything for us and never answered our prayers. This is what God wants from you and me today!

Dear God forgive me for my little secret that You don’t like. Enable me to genuinely relate with You. In Jesus’s name, Amen!

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