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Daily Advent Meditation
By Val Jackson
John 5: 30-47
'I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of the One who sent me. '
'If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true. You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth. Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But I have a testimony greater than John's. The works that God has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that God has sent me. And the God who sent me has testified on my behalf. You have never heard God's voice or seen God's form, and you do not have God's word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom God has sent. '
'You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify on my behalf. Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. I do not accept glory from human beings. But I know that you do not have the love of God in* you. I have come in God's name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Parent; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe what I say?' New Revised Standard Version
Can I Get a Witness?
Law enforcement officials often talk about the unreliability of eyewitnesses. It is amazing how a number of people can witness the same event, yet see different things. Actually, what we see is dependent upon what we've seen in the past. What we see is based on what is within us.
Jesus is talking to individuals who are unable to witness God in him. Sometimes we miss God because we are expecting to see God in a certain way, under particular conditions. Sometimes, God isn't quite acting the way we think God should act.
The Christmas story is about God coming to us born of a virgin in a stable. The message is not that God actually came to us from a virgin and was laid in the manger, but that God comes to us in unexpected ways.
Our challenge is to be in full relationship with God so that God fills us and overflows to the world beyond. When this happens, we witness God in ourselves and in others. We see, hear and appreciate God in the smallest ways.
Lord, fill me with your spirit. Let me be a witness of your love.
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