My Own "House"

In the Gospel according to St. John (chapter 7), we hear of a certain "division among the people" that occurs over Jesus and the message he brings. The jealous religious leaders send men to arrest Jesus, but when they return empty handed, the following occurs: 

The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!” The Pharisees answered them, “Are you led astray, you also? Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed.” Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before, and who was one of them, said to them, "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee.”

The passage concludes with this telling line: "They went each to his own house." Interesting phrase. We see a rather heated dispute erupting between different factions, each having their own opinion about Jesus. And how does the dispute conclude? It doesn't, really. They each "go home" with their own vision of who Jesus is, what his Gospel means, and whether or not his words even apply to them at all.

We all face the challenge of what to believe about Jesus, and this story makes me ask these questions:

• Where is my "house" when it comes to Jesus?
• Where am I most myself when it comes to him?
• Is this house built on a rock or on shifting sands?

In other words: Who am I going to believe when it comes to Jesus?