I said “you are gods”
We are gods! We are gods, because scripture refers as such to those to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside. Psalm 82:6 says: "I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.' We are created in God’s image, and Jesus has come to restore that image in us, which was damaged by sin, so that we who were destined to die because of sin may live forever as children of God we were intended to be. This is what Jesus tells those who accuse him of blaspheming because he tells them that God is his Father. John tells us at the beginning of the gospel according to him, that “But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12)
The sad thing is that even after hearing this, people took up stones to hit at Jesus. Again, their reaction reminds us of the words in the Prologue to John’s gospel. “He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him. He came to his own people, and even they rejected him” (John 1:10-11). They preferred darkness to light, death to life. Jesus made a further attempt to persuade them by telling them, that if they found it so hard to believe in him as Son of God, at least let them believe in the obvious works he performed. Believing in them they would realize and understand that the Father is in him and he in the Father, and that would lead them to the full truth.
The tendency to descend from our true dignity to which we are called and sink into darkness while pursuing our own interests is rampant among many of us. Yet what Jesus tells the Jews is also helpful to us: there is always a window of escape back to our God-given dignity. Believing in the truth we know and acting upon it leads us back to the greater truth we do not know.
