“Authority issues”

Morning: Psalms 6, 12; Lamentations 1:17-22; 2 Corinthians 1:8-22

Evening: Psalm 94; Mark 11:27-33

Questions reveal much about the questioner. Long before psychology described “authority issues”, religious leaders asked Jesus: By whose authority do you do these things? Without being defensive and with an apparently simple question, Jesus demonstrated again his authority to teach them. Many of us suffer our whole lives because someone who wielded power once treated us badly. We spend our lives fighting unconsciously against that person by projecting our anger onto other authority figures, even onto God. Jesus, though, wants us to own (without needing to prove it) both our own goodness and the infinite goodness of God.