"Wanting to satisfy the crowd . . ." (Mark 15:15, NIV)Pilate made a bad decision in order to satisfy the crowd. Does this sound familiar to you? It certainly does for me.
I have left things unsaid which should have been said. I have said things that were best left unsaid. I have allowed the people around me influence my behavior. Too often, I have allowed my chief concern to be people liking and accepting me.
It is God, and God alone that I should seek to please. For, in the end, it is God and God alone who will be the judge.
Now, to be fair, Pilate was close to having a riot on his hands. As a very unpopular Roman Governor, he had a difficult issue to address in his handling of Jesus. But, like you and I, he had the opportunity to hear the truth and respond to it.
May I hear God's voice above the din of the crowd and follow it today.
"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." (John 10:27, NIV)
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