Come To Me

“Come to Me” is all about the holy season of Lent. Answering an invitation that can change a life is hard to pass up.  But we do.  I did several times before I became a devoted Jesus follower.  And I haven’t been the same since. . .

I met Jesus in John back in 1975.  He took me by the heart to introduce me to those whose lives were changed because of an encounter with Him.  The woman at the well has been my go-to girl because I get her.  The paralyzed who waited for someone to bring him to the healing pool, I get that too when we’re so stopped in our tracks and think it’s better to stay where we are.  The blind from birth who was blamed that he or his parents were the reason –that one too.  I feel I’ve lived the stories of the nobleman’s child being healed from a distance, Lazarus with what looked like a no-hope situation and also one of my favorite ladies – the woman who bled-out-life for twelve years and received healing as she reached in faith to touch the hem of His garment.

John is all about believe and testimony.

Jesus walks through the pages of the eye-witness story of the disciple John back in the ancient day, back in 1975 and right now, right here in 2024.  The word is life-changing.  Always and ever.

We’re in the book of John in our weekly Precept Bible study class – and all these years later we can still grow and learn from those we meet along the way within the holy lines of the gospel.  John paints a portrait of a loving Jesus using theological and relatable colors even within the miracles and signs.

It tells of the beauty of God’s offer of Jesus.

Jesus is the I Am – the new wine, Living Water, True Light, Bread, Gate, Good Shepherd and the Resurrection and the Life.  He’s all that and more . . . and that’s just the first eleven chapters.  So why wouldn’t we want to trust and take His hand?

We’re on the edge of the Lenten season, a few weeks away from Ash Wednesday’s promise of Easter. Lent sounds like a Catholic word and I’m not really a Lent-person, so for me it’s a sacred word.  A calling away and refreshing pause from the distracted culture and the constant rumble in our head to take a deeper wilderness-walk with our Savior for forty days to have it last 365.

If you have a Bible (or a phone) please turn to John for an intentional quiet collection of days to meet the One who asks that you “come and see” the ones whose lives were changed because He went out of His way for them.  For us ~

 . . .but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that believing you may have life in His name.  John twenty-thirty-one