Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Remember Greg McMahon in your prayers today

Shorter blogging today, only the Gospel Lesson

John 8:12-20

To know the father, we must know Jesus. Those in the text today did not understand that, and so they missed Jesus. They were expecting Jesus to be someone or somewhere else. We see that notion a lot in scripture. In Matthew 25 in the parable of the sheep and the goats, the goats are cast aside because when they did not do to the least among them, they did not do to Jesus. They were not expecting to see Jesus among the least, but there he was. The religious leaders did not expect Jesus to come as he did, but there he was. Do you expect to only encounter Jesus in church? What about in your job? Your conversations? Your family life? The promise we celebrated in Christmas a couple of months ago was this, Emmanuel, God is with us. There were no conditions place on where God was with us, simply God was with us. Will you find Jesus in your life today? He is there. What is he calling you to? And will you follow? They missed Jesus because they weren't looking for Him. Will you and I do the same?