"No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you." John 15:15
Everything that Jesus heard from God he told the disciples, and we have a lot of it in the Gospels, so why do we not listen to it? Sunday morning I talked a little bit about how we often forget the cross in the midst of the manger, but even more often we forget the time in between all the time. I am roughly 14 posts away from being done with this blog, at least as far as daily posts go, and one of the things I will miss is the daily wrestling with what Jesus taught. It has reminded me over and over again how far we, as individuals and as a corporate church, still have to go. It has been almost 2000 years since the cross and we still tend to mess things up more than we fix them up.
I say we above because it is all of us. Even the best of us need to step it up, and I am by no means the best of us, I have as much to work on as anybody [not that I really need to tell any of you that actually know me].
One of the things I think we need to work on is realizing how we relate to God. In John 15 Jesus attempts to get it through the thick heads of the disciples that they are not servants, but friends, it is a lesson that we would be well advised to learn as well. I am pretty sure that we haven't covered it in these entries [121 is hard to keep track of] but in Matthew 7:21 & 23 Jesus says "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord.' shall enter the kingdom of heaven...And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you...'" Among other things, I wonder if part of it is Jesus saying that we never knew him, that we never understood his purpose, his teaching, his love, his friendship. We so often call him Lord with no understanding of what our relationship to him is. Jesus is our Lord but he is also our friend, and if we fail to understand that, then we don't really know him at all.
+ Who is Jesus to you?
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