‘Thoughts'

 

-- How Would I Respond? --

 

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

The Apostle John begins this letter with the deity of Jesus and then shows throughout the rest of the letter His work as deity on earth, so that we might believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God and have life in His name ( Chap. 20:31 ). I have contemplated many times how I would act if I had been there physically to meet Him!

Would I:

• Believe that He was Him of whom Moses spoke of in the Law, and He whom the prophets wrote of as Philip did ( John 1:45 )?
• Doubt that any good thing could come from Nazareth as Nathanael did ( John 1:46 )?
• Come to Him by night for fear of who might see me, even though I knew that only someone from God could do the things He did, like Nicodemus ( John 3:1-2 )?
• Be skeptical of His kindness as was the Samaritan woman by the well ( John 4:9 )?
• Be outraged that He healed the sick on the Sabbath, like the Jews by the pool of Bethesda ( John 5:16 )?
• Want to follow after Him because He feed me, as the multitudes did by the Sea of Galilee ( John 6:26 )?
• Doubt Him because I knew His earthly parents, like the Jews who found Him on the other side of the Sea of Galilee ( John 6:41 -42 )?
• Throw insults at Him and want to throw rocks at Him, as the Pharisees did ( John 8:48 , 59 )?
• Believe in Him but not want to follow Him because I loved the praise of men and position in life, like the rulers of the Jews ( John 12:42-43 )?

These are just some of the responses of those who had the opportunity to meet the Son of God in the flesh. We look back and often say that we would never act like many of these did! Yet don't we act like many of them when we neglect so great a salvation as that offered in His word? The next time you ask the Father for forgiveness of your sins, consider how you are responding to the Son of God in your life! John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”