Today’s reading is full of both challenges and promises from
Jesus.
We base so much of what we do together as a church on the
significance of Jesus’ word when he says:
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to
the Father except through me.”
Also, in today’s passage there are three main questions
which Jesus asks different disciples, and I find myself asking how I would
answer these questions.
Taking them in reverse order, Jesus asks Philip (14:9-10),
“Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time?
Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the
Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?”
Essentially, Jesus asks, “Don’t you have enough to trust in
me?”
I remind myself that I have more than enough to go on in
order to confidently place my trust in Jesus.
Secondly, Jesus also asks a leading question to the
disciples together (14:2), “My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not
so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?”
I read these words and imagine Jesus saying to me, “If there
was more you needed to know about heaven, in order to trust me and to not let
your hearts be troubled, don’t you believe I would have told you?”
So, I remind myself that Jesus has given enough promises and
pointers about the future that I need not live with a troubled heart today.
Thirdly Jesus asks Peter (13:38), “Will you really lay down
your life for me?”
I have left this question to last because it is the hardest.
I read this question and remind myself of the need to prioritise following
Jesus above everything else and to lay down my life for him again today.
Response
Review these 3
questions and offer Jesus your answers.
Ken
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