Friday, 7th April 2006

LC Day 33

John 3-4 in the Lent Challenge

John 3: 16 is such a familiar verse, but seeing it here in context really bought it alive for me.  The whole of ch3 is buzzing with excitment, the whole good news summed up in one chapter.

Jesus really went out on a limb in ch4.   Not only was it illegal for him, as a religious leader, to speak to a woman (!) but a Samaritan at that. Again he talks about water, not at a wedding this time, but at a well.  Water that comes like a spring to give eternal life.  Using something then and there, that she would understand to teach her about himself. He doesn’t ‘lord’ it over her, but tells her exactly what she needs to know.

He also knows her through and through, like he did Nathanael in ch1.  So he knows me just as well, and to be honest, that makes me somewhat uncomfortable.  There are bits of me I wish he didn’t know. I think John the bap sums it in 3:30, more of him and (much) less of me.

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