Jesus: The Scriptures are all About Me!

““You have your heads in your Bibles constantly because you think you’ll find eternal life there. But you miss the forest for the trees. These Scriptures are all about me!” (John 5:39, The Message) 

Christ to the Jewish leaders.  

A couple of things here.  First, we are confronted again with the sheer audacity of Christ's claims.  The Scriptures are all about me!   Either that statement is true, or it is not true.  Normal people don't make these kinds of statements especially when both parties, Christ and the Jewish leaders, fully understood the claim Christ was making when he said what he said.  It is either blasphemy of the highest order, or it is the truth; those are the options here.

Second, we followers of Christ need to tread very carefully here.  The people to whom Christ was talking had their heads in your Bibles constantly, but they missed Christ.  Surely, they thought themselves the most faithful of all of the Jews to the Scriptures, but they still missed Christ!  This should at least cause us to tread very carefully around our own preconceptions and expectations of Christ.  He was in the business of upsetting all preconceptions about him and offending all sides of an issue.  

We need to keep asking ourselves the question, "Am I with Christ on this issue, or am I expecting that Christ is with me and my own opinions about a matter?"  Too often we make the assumption that our side is Christ's side when it is not.  We need to repent of this.