Day 35 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: Jesus asks a lot from followers here, but also offers a lot. What do you need from what he is offering today?

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“If you love me, keep my commandments. I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper to be with you forever: the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot get, because it doesn’t see him or know him. You know him, for he stays beside you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. In a little while, the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will also live. On that day you will realise that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be shown my Father’s love, and I will show my love and myself to them.”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you are going to show yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, they will keep my word. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Someone who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. And the word which you hear is not mine, but belongs to the Father who sent me.

“I have said these things to you while I am still with you. But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I really give to you. Don’t let your hearts be troubled, and don’t be afraid. You heard that I told you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to my Father, for the Father is greater than I.

“Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe and trust. I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has nothing on me, but is coming so the world may know that I love the Father, and I do just what the Father has commanded of me. Come on, let’s go from here.”