John 6:41–51
Familiarity Breeds…
“They said, ‘Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?’” John 6:42 (NIV)
Maybe we all know Jesus too well…we’ve grown up singing “Jesus loves me, this I know” and we sort of take it for granted.
This Lenten season is a good time to step back and take a new look. Do we really know Jesus or have we absorbed somebody else’s version…a picture from a Sunday school book, a stained glass window, maybe even an on screen performance (I am partial to Willem Dafoe in “The Last Temptation”).
Perhaps we need to remember that we can only meet Jesus when we seek him in other people. After all, He did say that whatever we did to “the least of these” we did to him.
Grant us the vision to see Jesus not as a distant mysterious figure but as the “least” of those who need our love. Amen.
Kay Koehler
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