Asking Why
At the time when the Pharisees were so angry toward Jesus, they took a woman who was caught in the act of adultery and presented her to Him. They were trying to get hold of Jesus. They resented Jesus, because up until then, He'd always managed to escape from their trickeries. If there were even one person who would dare to throw a stone at the woman, it's surely possible for others who would join him to do the same thing, and the situation would be so uncontrolable.
Jesus was faced with a difficult situation. In John 8:15-18, He said that He doesn't judge by Himself, therefore He wanted to ask His Father. I would think that this situation was similar with the one when Jesus was on the cross, as He said "Eloi, Eloi, lama Sabakhtani" to His Father. In the midst of His sufferrings on the cross, Jesus asked His Father as to why it seemed that the Father had left Him. Nevertheless, Jesus still managed to forgive the ones who had wronged Him.
And thus when Jesus was facing the pressures from the Pharisees to judge the woman, He tried to divert His attention in writing with His finger on the ground. He might had written something like this to His Father, "I need You, Father, why it seems that You have deserted Me?"
The Pharisees kept on pushing Jesus who was writing His prayer on the ground. Then Jesus answered them according to what He had wanted to teach them, and that was about love. And afterward, He continued to write, knowing that His words might only fall on the Pharisees' deaf ears. Then, when there was only silence that He heard, He lifted Himself up and Jesus found only the woman standing nearby. And He asked her the Pharisees' whereabout. She answered that they had left her alone.
The words of Jesus, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her", would actually bear little meaning to the outrageous Pharisees. A lawyer might give this reply to Jesus, "We are only judging this woman, and not everyone else presents here" - let alone the Pharisees who would always want to contradict Him.
This could be the same thing as when I would say, that "I am in His love", sometimes I could shed my tears, but many times I could feel nothing at all. The Word of God without His touch would open to be influenced by our moods at the time. Thus we do need the presence of Father God. Imagine, how could the outrageous Pharisees were able to realize that they themselves were in the wrong and were not worthy to condemn another sinner? I believe, that it was the presence of Father God which had touched their hearts, one by one.
Many times we also do not know why it seems that we have been left alone by our Father. We oftentimes do not know His will, and we won't know without His consent. But one thing for sure, when we ask Father God of His whereabout, Jesus knows how we feel, since He also had experienced it. Jesus would accompany us constantly. He won't leave us alone, just like He didn't leave the adulterous woman alone at the hands of the Pharisees. Infact, it is possible for Jesus to promptly defend our case before the Father, since He understands the feelings that we have at the times of our waiting for our prayers to be answered.
Asking Why
At the time when the Pharisees were so angry toward Jesus, they took a woman who was caught in the act of adultery and presented her to Him. They were trying to get hold of Jesus. They resented Jesus, because up until then, He'd always managed to escape from their trickeries. If there were even one person who would dare to throw a stone at the woman, it's surely possible for others who would join him to do the same thing, and the situation would be so uncontrolable.
Jesus was faced with a difficult situation. In John 8:15-18, He said that He doesn't judge by Himself, therefore He wanted to ask His Father. I would think that this situation was similar with the one when Jesus was on the cross, as He said "Eloi, Eloi, lama Sabakhtani" to His Father. In the midst of His sufferrings on the cross, Jesus asked His Father as to why it seemed that the Father had left Him. Nevertheless, Jesus still managed to forgive the ones who had wronged Him.
And thus when Jesus was facing the pressures from the Pharisees to judge the woman, He tried to divert His attention in writing with His finger on the ground. He might had written something like this to His Father, "I need You, Father, why it seems that You have deserted Me?"
The Pharisees kept on pushing Jesus who was writing His prayer on the ground. Then Jesus answered them according to what He had wanted to teach them, and that was about love. And afterward, He continued to write, knowing that His words might only fall on the Pharisees' deaf ears. Then, when there was only silence that He heard, He lifted Himself up and Jesus found only the woman standing nearby. And He asked her the Pharisees' whereabout. She answered that they had left her alone.
The words of Jesus, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her", would actually bear little meaning to the outrageous Pharisees. A lawyer might give this reply to Jesus, "We are only judging this woman, and not everyone else presents here" - let alone the Pharisees who would always want to contradict Him.
This could be the same thing as when I would say, that "I am in His love", sometimes I could shed my tears, but many times I could feel nothing at all. The Word of God without His touch would open to be influenced by our moods at the time. Thus we do need the presence of Father God. Imagine, how could the outrageous Pharisees were able to realize that they themselves were in the wrong and were not worthy to condemn another sinner? I believe, that it was the presence of Father God which had touched their hearts, one by one.
Many times we also do not know why it seems that we have been left alone by our Father. We oftentimes do not know His will, and we won't know without His consent. But one thing for sure, when we ask Father God of His whereabout, Jesus knows how we feel, since He also had experienced it. Jesus would accompany us constantly. He won't leave us alone, just like He didn't leave the adulterous woman alone at the hands of the Pharisees. Infact, it is possible for Jesus to promptly defend our case before the Father, since He understands the feelings that we have at the times of our waiting for our prayers to be answered.