The Mystery Of Faith

Good Morning!! If we were to be honest, if we're willing to be real, about our faith and beliefs, we must regularly return to the realization that so much of what we embrace, is still a mystery. As the hour of Jesus’ death loomed closer and closer, He was sharing with His disciples final words that were simple to understand, yet so full of mystery that they could not comprehend.  Jesus held nothing back. He made it very clear what He wanted His disciples to know and to remember.  Listen as Jesus speaks into that concern:

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.—John 14:18-20 (NIV)

Is this not the great mystery again? Jesus is in the Father; we are in Jesus; Jesus is in us. Someday, the mystery will become our full experience. Death is our passage into the full reality of God. For now, though, on this side of the grave, we live it simply by faith.
 

Jesus' words transcend time and distance to speak to us today: love, obedience, truth, fear… and being left alone.

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Thank You for speaking into our fears, with truth. Thanks for holding nothing back in the final words You spoke to the disciples,...the words that You speak to us today. You have not left us. You live, and we will live, because we are in You! Thank You Jesus. Amen.

" If you can't see or show love, you are not a Christian,...you're just playing one."