Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are you a king then?"
"You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born,
and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." John 18:37
I have written before about how it is my belief that it is not our attainment of the goal, but rather our desire for it and or attempt to reach it that makes us holy. Here, once again, I find myself.
Do you remember how in the late 90's/early 2000's there arose such a clatter of WWJD [what would Jesus do?] ? Everywhere you looked people were wearing silicon bracelets sporting those four letters. Books were published on them. Nearly every preacher in America gave a sermon on them. Even parodies of them spread, like WWSD [what would scooby-do]. On my particular college campus we had recently lost one of our students and her sister popularized WWLD [what would Laura do?].
At the time I felt it was all rather trite, especially since some people came up with a lot of junk that I am pretty sure Jesus would not have done. But as I sit here now I wonder if to some degree it was a good sign that WWJD became so popular. Jesus says that everyone who is of the truth hears his voice, hears his voice, and I think of 'everyone who has ears to hear' and think that perhaps if we can hear Jesus's voice we are on the right track. We may not always hear it clearly, sometimes we don't hear it in a timely manner, but as long as we hear it we aren't too far gone.
I often hear Jesus's voice, not audibly, but in my mind, poking me at times, pushing me at times, slicing me at times, lifting me up at times, laying me low at times. I am beginning to think that it is in the hearing that we find movement and peace and grace and strength. I am beginning to think that is in the hearing that we can have comfort and confidence. I hear Jesus, therefore I am one who is of the truth, Lord, let me hear more.
+ Do you hear Jesus?
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