2026 Reading Plan Reflections - Day 60

The Pharisees ask for a sign. That would almost be funny if it weren’t tragic.

Blind eyes had been opened. Thousands had been fed. Demons cast out. Scripture fulfilled in real time. And still, “Show us a sign.” Not because they lacked evidence, but because they wanted control. A sign on their terms. Proof packaged their way.

Jesus sighs. Not irritated at curiosity, but grieved at hardness. Then the disciples miss it too. When Jesus warns them about “the yeast of the Pharisees,” they think He’s talking about bread. They’ve just participated in miraculous feedings twice and they’re worried about lunch?

It’s easy to shake our heads at both groups. Harder to see ourselves in them. How often do we ask for “a sign” when God has already been faithful? How often do we reduce spiritual warning to practical inconvenience? How often do we miss what God is doing because it doesn’t look like what we requested?

The Pharisees wanted spectacle. The disciples wanted security. Jesus just wanted trust.

Grace had already been moving. The invitation was not for another miracle. It was for deeper perception. The yeast of unbelief spreads quietly — not always in loud rejection, but in distracted focus. We fixate on what we lack instead of remembering Who has provided. The question isn’t whether God is at work. The question is whether we have eyes to see it.

Write down three ways God has been faithful in your life over the past year. Say a prayer of thanks for each one. Consider how many of those three prayers answered differently than you expected.