Meditation
Hope and childhood and purity and secrets and love and faith and hope
“Like God.” That’s an audacious claim. Absurdly so? Will we be omnipotent and omniscient? What can you do with such a claim?
Meditation
No one who abides in him sins
OK, this is confusing. John says, “if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us,” and then he proclaims that “no one who abides in him sins.” Um, John, did you forget what you just said on the previous page?
Meditation
Intuition
What does Jesus mean by saying that he will reveal himself to those who love him?
Meditation
Resurrection
How can you say anything about the resurrection? It’s too big a topic. It’s like, “Say a little about life.”
Meditation
Voluntation
I hate zoom worship. I find my mind wandering. When we sing a song I’m thinking, verse 2, hopefully this is the last one? Verse 3? OK, verse 4 must be the last one, hardly any songs have more than 4 verses. Verse 5!?!
Meditation
A hubbub
You take a pilgrimage toward Jerusalem for the festival. It’s been a long trip, but you are drawn. Now you are getting close.
Meditation
I will reveal myself
For much of the disciples’ lives, Jesus, who is right there with them, is apparently hidden from them. But to those who love him he promises to reveal himself.
Meditation
Embarrassing promises
The bible, the New Testament, the gospels are full of embarrassing promises, but nowhere are they as thick and heavy as in Jesus’ last discourse to the disciples in John 14–16.
Meditation
The poor shall eat and be satisfied
Who may aspire to know God, to serve him wholeheartedly, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to be made like him?
