John 1:10-17
Do you know the person who designed and built the home you are living in? I must confess - if the one who carefully drew out the plans for my home showed up at the door, he or she would be a stranger. I wouldn't recognize them until we were introduced, even though I was living in the home that they were intimately familiar with.
In John 1:10 we read that "He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him." Standing before them was the One who breathed life into thier bodies - and they didn't recognize Him. Psalm 139:13 tells us "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb." Completely familiar with us, but to our eyes a stranger.
We have to be introduced. That introduction can take place while reading the Bible, through a sermon, by the witness of one who is already a follower of Christ - or in Paul's case by a blinding light on the road to Damascus!
Once we are introduced and make the decision to believe in Him, John 1:12 tells us "Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God." Not strangers any longer - but family!
I thought about the 2 travelers on the road to Emmaus. They walked with Jesus, and talked with Him, but not until they ate with Him was their eyes opened and they saw it was Jesus. Just as you opened their eyes Lord, I pray You would open mine to really see You and recognize You immediately everyday and in everything, that I would look for You in expectation and excitement, and seek you with my whole heart as I travel on my daily road. Forgive me when I get so caught up in myself and miss Your glory. I am thinking also about how I was introduced to Jesus every time I was in the company of our dear brother Dave Steffen. We mourn the loss of not seeing him here on earth, but we also rejoice because he is now singing and dancing and traveling on the ultimate road with his Jesus!
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