John 7-11
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This week we'll be reading John 7-11 - only 5 chapters, so plenty of time to think about what we're reading. Thanks Loren and Susan for your insightful comments last week. I enjoyed reading and thinking about them. Hopefully some others will join in this week, too. I'd love to see what God is impressing on your heart from His Word.
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Chapter 8 begins with the religious leaders looking to stone a woman caught in adultery. Although that is what she deserved according to the law, Jesus treats her with grace (which by the way fits the message on the parable of the Weeds yesterday). The chapter ends with those same religious leaders trying to stone Jesus, which He did not deserve. But not too much later Jesus willingly gave up His life for me - His grace again!
Jn. Cp 7-8. I want to be like Jesus, who didn't care what people thought about him, but only about what God the Father thought; losing what didn't matter and gaining everything that did. I want to avoid being like Satan who grabbed for himself what God had not given, and ended up with titles like Murderer and Father of Lies. As time passes, God is always proven right, and those who obey Him learn that it was worth it.
Anonymous,
I like what you wrote about only caring about what God the Father thinks about me. Hard to do, but that is the mindset I want to have, too.
I was struck by Jesus's brothers not beleiving8 in him in chapter 7. We know eventually his brother James was a major leader in the church, so either this refers to his brothers generally, not absolutely every brother not believing, or James came to profound faith later. Trouble within the family is harder than trouble outside, I think.
One of the main themes in John so far has been that of belief. There are certainly different levels of belief - most only believed because of the miracles but not enough to trust completely in Jesus for their salvation. I want to make sure that my belief is never based solely on what I can get from Jesus.
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