Come And See

 "They said to Him, 'Rabbi, where are you staying?' 'Come and you will see,' He replied. So they went to see where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day." John 1:38-39....."Instead of entering into a theological discussion with Andrew, Jesus turned and began to walk. Andrew's questions would not be answered by discussion alone, but by walking with Him."

We're not patient about our desire to have the Lord answer our questions. In fact, we can be very demanding that He would. Rarely will He do so. He's not trying to be a difficult Lord. He's at work to do something deep in us. Something that cannot be accomplished by discussion and even outright answers. In fact, He's not really interested in our knowing answers, but that we know the One who is the Answer.

We are coming into a day few, if any of us have encountered before. As the Father told the Israelites in the midst of entering new land, "You have not been this way before." Neither have we. Therefore, we must press into Jesus that we may press on with Him. As we walk with Him, we will begin to see more and more. More of who He is, and more of who we are. More of what stands against us, and more of the One who stands with us. It's a journey of discovery, with most of our discovery coming to be who He is and who we are in Him. Each day will provide new opportunities for us to "come and see." In the process, I think our questions will become fewer as our knowledge becomes greater. We enter into intimacy with Him, and that intimacy yields trust. Trust yields courage, His courage, and that courage makes us more than conquerors in all of it.

In this new day we'll find that all those natural things we've relied on are going to fail us. Our culture is being shaken. The world is being shaken. So shaken that as Paul wrote, only that which is of Him will remain. We're going to need His wisdom, His discernment, His understanding, and His mind to walk through it. All of it comes from living in His Presence. Not some vague sense, but a living, conscious reality. This will always be the result when we heed His invitation to, "Come and see."

Blessings,

Pastor O