Spirit & Life

I’m sitting here in the little corner of my room where I like to write.  There’s a window in front of me; it’s still light outside, even though the dusk is as gray as the afternoon was.  We’ve had a few cloudy days in a row here, with rain falling off and on.

It’s been a quiet day.  I’ve done some laundry, helped Kailey take care of her birthday-guinea-pig (our first actual needs-to-exercise and have-attention pet), read quite a bit.  I’ve been reading through the book of John again.  I come back to John again and again; I love to hear Jesus’ voice in this gospel.  When my heart feels a little shadowed, it’s His words that leave no room for darkness.

So when I read John 7:46 today, I had to laugh at what is maybe the understatement of all time.  The Pharisees were trying to get local officers to detain Jesus and they wouldn’t do it. “No man ever spoke like this Man,” they said.

They couldn’t know how deeply true this was, how wholly right they were.

No man ever spoke like this Man, for there had never been a man like Him.  Jesus was a son of man, yes, but also the Son of God.  Before the creation of the world, He was there.  Through Him, it was all made.  Through Him, we were made.

And He spoke the heart of His Father into the world, into us.  He spoke forgiveness. Healing. Peace. Freedom. Love.  His words were power.  His words were glory.  His words changed everything.

And on this regular day that’s turning quickly into night, this quiet Thursday, or whatever sort of day it might be while you’re reading these words… He is still speaking to me and to you.

Maybe now is the time to slow down, to ask Him what He’s saying, to listen for His voice.  If you need kindness, if you need Truth, if you need grace… if you need love that doesn’t falter and hope that doesn’t fail ~ His voice is like no other voice.  His words are like no other words.  He said it best: The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. 

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