A Change of Pace

Lately I've been blogging a lot about issues pertaining to myself, and that's all well and good, but I'm finding that my life in the Word is falling to the wayside. I don't remember the last time I took the time to sit and quietly meditate on God's Word. So I started today and I'm going to read through the book of John. I'll blog on every chapter with ideas, questions, etc. This way, I can actually chew on each chapter.

John Chapter One

Okay. So a few things stuck out at me.

Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which, when translated, is Peter).

Jesus took the time when each disciple came to Him to either keep their old name, or rename them. I find this amazing because it shows that the Creator of the universe knows us inside and out and decided to name us. If you were there with Jesus, what name would He give you?

Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

"Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked.

"Come and see," said Philip.

Sometimes when God calls me to do something, my first reply is "Can anything good come out of that? That sounds crazy!" Sometimes we don't understand what God is trying to do because God does not work by human logic. He said the last will be first and the first will be last, I mean, Jesus came and turned everything upside down. Nothing is what it seems when Christ is at the center of it. Nathanael goes on to ask Jesus, "How do you know me?" My answer to this is "How does He not know us?" There is nothing that escapes Jesus. He is omnisicient. That's what makes Him amazing.

Just to flip the question around, how do you know Him?