Have You Found Your Life in Jesus

Meditations for Seeking the Life in Christ

The Gospel of John 

July 10, 2024

Have You Found Your Life in Jesus

Then Jesus told him, “Go back home. Your son will live!” And the man believed what Jesus said and started home.

John  4:50

When Jesus was back in Cana, John says Jesus performed his second miraculous sign. Jesus’ own commentary was that many people were more interested in his signs than they were in actually following Jesus into the Kingdom of God. When I was in Israel, as we were boarding our tour bus in Caesarea to continue our journey to Jerusalem, I noticed some in our group taking photos of the road sign pointing to Jerusalem. If they would have been satisfied with their photo of the road sign, and never journeyed on to Jerusalem, they would have been like the people in Galilee responding to Jesus’ signs.

But the government official from Capernaum was not like that; he was more like the Samaritan woman. He clearly believed Jesus was the only hope for his child: “The official pleaded, “Lord, please come now before my little boy dies” (John 4:49). Like the Samaritan woman, he chose to believe what Jesus told him. When he returned home and found his son well, his choice to believe Jesus turned into saving faith for him and his entire family: “And he and his entire household believed in Jesus (John 4:53b).

John’s commentary reminds us that the miracles of Jesus have a specific purpose. Jesus’ signs are given so that “you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name” (John 20:31). This gift of life is how Jesus defined his own mission: “I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of” (John 10:10b The Message).

My Takeaway: Because I have found life in Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God, I daily affirm, my life is not my own. I belong to God. My creation and redemption, I belong to God who has given me new life.

Sē’lah

 

(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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