Unexpected message, unexpected messenger

Morning: Psalms 82, 98; Malachi 3:1-5; John 3:22-30

Evening: Psalm 80; Malachi 4:1-6; Matthew 11:2-19

Listen to people debating big problems. They may think they have answers; it’s perhaps easier to be a spectator on life than to be ‘on the playing-field’.  We may welcome an unexpected messenger who tackles things from a new perspective, but don’t stray too far from our own answers and expectations (as did John the Baptist, whose day it is today).  If you speak truth, it can be disconcerting.  ‘Fake News’ may be easier to hear?  The phrase ‘Don’t shoot the messenger’ is real when the message calls for more radical change and deeper awareness than we want.