Tuesday, September 4, 2012


Have you ever heard the statement, "Seeing is believing"?  Well that is not always the case.  In fact, many times you can be looking right into the eyes of God and not even really know it.  In the Book of John, we see an interesting dialogue between Jesus and His disciples.  Now, we know that the disciples left their careers and families to follow Jesus wherever he went because they believed in him. So it is interesting when we read in John 16:30, "Then Jesus' disciples said, "Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God."  Jesus is getting ready to go to the Cross and finally after three years the disciples say, "We Believe". Wow!  From the time the disciples started following Jesus they believed in this idea of who he was and what he was going to do.  However, as they walked with him, that belief system was constantly being challenged and downright contradicted on a daily basis.  They were trying to hang on to beliefs that were just not true. It wasn't until they had the “OHHHHH moment” that they were completely able to believe in Jesus. Many Christians are trying to put the reality of Jesus in their physical, limited, and in this world box. The scriptures often don't fit in to that paradigm. We believe in Jesus, but we interpret him through our lens of limitations.  It is when we look through our glasses and ask God to heal our eyes that we will share the same kind of moment that Disciples had. OOOOOHHHH!

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