Judges 7: 9-25, Judges 8, John 5: 31-47, Psalm 71: 19-24
John 5: 31-32 (ESV)
“If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not
true. There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the
testimony that he bears about me is true.”
I like verses 31 through 32 from John 5 because Jesus is
saying and I paraphrase “Look, don’t my word for it about who I am and the miracles
I have performed. I have a witness for you.” In fact, Jesus had three witnesses
he could talk about. The bible commentaries I’ve read also reference that Jesus
was following Old Testament law that was established in Deuteronomy 19: 15
which says, “A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime
or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on
the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be
established.” Christ did not commit a crime, but the principle in this verse
from Deuteronomy establishes that you need two or three witnesses as evidence
of what you have done.
I like this principle of having three witnesses to establish
who you are and what you’ve done, so people can’t just claim to be something.
They’ve got to be able to prove to others that they have an established pattern
and evidence of what they and what they’ve done or evidentiary documentation. It’s
a good rule to follow as well to gauge if you’ve changed something about
yourself. Can you point to three times where you’ve done something differently
than what you might have done? Are there three different circumstances where
you chose something other than your normal pattern of behavior? If you can
establish the pattern of three in your behavior, I think you can take it as an indication
that you have changed and call that a success.
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