The man who sets you free

 

Dear reader,

I know you are well. I am reading the book of John. Today, I was just going through chapters 8 to 9. Now, I have read John many times but it never just sticks. This time, I am reading out loud while meditating over it as I go so that I am fully present. When I feel a verse speaking ever so more to me, I jot it down and write something on it.

This evening, it was like this:

John 8: 12. ‘Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. “I am the light of the world…whoever follows me will have the light of life and will never walk in darkness”’ I think this is a call for us to pray to God our Father about our desire to follow Jesus. When we walk with and follow Jesus, he will lighten our life and our paths. He will bring light to darkness within us. He will expose the hidden so that we know and are no longer in them but have light of life.

Okay, so this is unrelated but listen. As I was just walking home from town earlier today, there was a conversation. I was carrying some groceries I had just bought and I was walking by the road hoping to meet a motorcycle so I can get on it and get home. And mind you, there was an option for me to drop were there was the actual stage but I was like I don’t want to spend extra. But God says, I see you, you have the means but why are you just out there folding your hands as though he is a God who doesn’t see or give, let alone wants you to be happy and comfortable.

If you know me, which you don’t, you will see my face dead serious most of the time, it’s because I am always somewhere, lost in thought debating about something and judging myself and criticizing my actions over what should and shouldn’t be. Do you really believe God? Because it seems to God that I feel I cannot trust him to replenish me. Crazy right. That I can believe God for a house for example but find it hard to believe him for something like joy and happiness that comes with being human and so imperfect but trusting in his perfection. The yearning for perfection has killed a great many joys in my life. But you know what I learnt from this, trust God and lay it all on him. You don’t even know why you be like that until one day, you are walking or just cleaning a plate and it hits you, he has cleansed you and taken it all. You are free, joyous and ever so happy!

John 8:28-29 So he said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that I do nothing on my own authority, but I say only what the Father has instructed me to say. He who sent me is with me, he has not left me alone because I always do what pleases him.”

John 8:31-32 So Jesus said to those who believed in him, “If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples; you will know the truth and the truth will set you free”

John 8:36 if the Son sets you free, then you will be really free!

In the end, truth lies and is found in obedience. If we obey the word of God, he will reveal to us what is true.

say CHEESE!!!!