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Gospel of John

Honest Thomas

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Can you imagine? Perhaps like me you do not have to imagine.

John 14 TLV: 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that where I am you may also be. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to Him, “Master, we don’t know where You are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.  source

Verse 3. Yeshua (Jesus) promised the Disciples (them and us) that He was going to prepare a place for them and that He would return for them to take them to the place He would prepare.  And in verse 4 He states you know the way to where I am going. I would think it might be a question rather than a statement were it not for Thomas.  

Honest Thomas!  

I wonder if Yeshua gave just a hint of a grin. A grin to reassure Honest Thomas that his question was acceptable. Acceptable because it was an honest inquiry even though it just might have come across like this (allow me to paraphrase): 

Uh. Rabbi. Uh. Sir. I don’t mean to disagree with You, Sir. But, no, Sir, we do not know the way. I don’t recall You mentioning this before. So what do You mean we know the way? 

Honest questions. 

Verse 6. Do you read a rebuke? Nope. Me either. I see a kind, patient, loving explanation; even though they should have learned already; He instructs them again. 

Sad to say it is fallen human nature to argue and question GOD.  It just is. Unregenerate man just thinks he or she knows more and better than GOD.  What can I say? It’s true. We argue with Him. We dispute Him. We question Him.

And you know what? He knows when that questioning is honest and when it is arrogant.  The honest ones often get His loving, patient explanation.  And if the explanation is not forthcoming, that means we have been given something even better: an opportunity to trust.

Honest Thomas. I love the man! 

If the Church does not rise ~ ~ ~
Kathie
1 Corinthians, A Quick Hello, Assurance - Promise, Gospel of John

Wishful Thinking?

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Well, let me share.

I was standing in the back yard and I said: “I love this place.” And no voice did I hear but gently on the screen of mind came this: “If you think you love this place, just wait till you get home.”

1 Corinthians 2:9 (NKJV) 9 But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” source

Did the Holy Spirit of GOD speak those words to me this morning or was it just me – wishful thinking? The day will come that I will know but until then Scripture says it’s true.

John 14:2 (TLV) 2 In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? source

 Perhaps you would take a moment or two and allow Him to reveal from His Word what He has prepared for you.

We have the Right to do Right in this Wrong World,  Kathie

Gospel of John, Passion Week

Waiting

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Saturday early afternoon; Resurrection Sunday is hours away.

How special will it be this year? Sunrise service. Breakfast. Sunday School. Music and preaching. Lunch. Family. Friends. Relaxing. What else?

What does HE want for us? 

Just some pondering(s) in a quiet house as I wait. 

John 20:11 But Mary stood outside by the tomb
weeping, and as she wept she stooped down 
and looked into the tomb. 12 And she saw two 
angels in white sitting, one at the head 
and the other at the feet, where the body
of Jesus had lain. 13 Then they said to her,
“Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to 
them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, 
and I do not know where they have laid Him.” 
14 Now when she had said this, she turned
around and saw Jesus standing there, and 
did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus 
said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? 
Whom are you seeking?” She, supposing 
Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir,
if You have carried Him away, tell me where
You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” 
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” 
(which is to say, Teacher). 
17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, 
for I have not yet ascended to My Father; 
but go to My brethren and say to them, 
‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, 
and to My God and your God.’” 
18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples
that she had seen the Lord, and that He 
had spoken these things to her.  source 
UNTIL THEN ~ ~ ~ KATHIE 
THE BLOOD OF JESUS IS ENOUGH

No sin goes unpunished.
Either we bear it or JESUS does for us;
and we get to choose who does the bearing.