Day 11 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus
What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.
Today's reflection: What does it mean to go to Jesus for life, and not just the Scriptures, church leaders or your favourite authors?
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“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. It is another who testifies about me. I know that his testimony about me is true. You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. It’s not that I am taking human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved. John was the lamp that kept burning and shining, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But the testimony which I have is greater than John’s; for the works which the Father gave me to finish, t he very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have never heard his voice or seen his form. You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe the one he sent.
“You keep on examining the Scriptures, because you think you have eternal life in them; and those Scriptures do testify about me. But you still won’t come to me to have life. I don’t take glory from men. But I know you, and you don’t have God’s love in you.
“I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If someone else comes in their own name, you will receive them. How can you believe, when you are giving and taking glory from each other, and you aren’t seeking the glory that comes from the only God?
“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is your source of hope - Moses. If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
