Devotionary

Jesus prays for our spiritual well-being and future sanctification. He dedicates us to God.

We are to have peace because of Christ’s victory, but we should never be complacent.

Jesus will talk a lot about abiding in this chapter, and part of abiding or remaining in Him will be that our lives produce what He desires.

We are going to see Jesus love to death. No running. No quitting. No attempts at self-preservation. Just selfless, sacrificial love.

The Bible would seem to indicate that God gets glory in the good times and the bad times. It all depends on how we view those moments.

For Jesus, death was not an end, but a means to God’s preferred end of salvation through the sacrificial death of His Son.

God can even use death to bring Himself glory. And Jesus would glorify the Father through His own death.

Abundant life. What is it, and how are we supposed to know it when we see it?

As we open up John 9, we’re going to see Jesus using the metaphor of blindness to explain the problem of spiritual blindness that plagued His generation.

Jesus is the light. He shines in the darkness. But He does more than that.

Jesus offers Himself as the solution to mankind’s unrelenting thirst for spiritual meaning and significance.

Jesus was the bread of life, not temporary relief from illness or a short-term solution to hunger.

Jesus wanted to obey the will of the Father, so He sought to know and accomplish that will on a daily basis.

Jesus was the One who could quench every thirst this woman had, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Jesus was sharing words of life, abundant life and eternal life. He was dropping a bombshell on that would rock Nicodemus’ comfortable world of righteousness earned through self-effort.