Hello there and welcome again to the Weekend Bible Study.
I hope you’ve had a good week. This morning I noticed that the old almond tree in our back yard has just sprouted its spring time blossoms – and it is absolutely beautiful. I can understand why the almond blossom was included in the floral designs carved into the ornaments of ancient Israel’s tabernacle.
Last week we worked through a few verses from the Gospel of John, and by this stage, I hope that we’re beginning to get a feel for what John is telling us. John is telling us about God, God in the flesh. “We have seen him and we have touched him,” says John in one of his epistles. That’s personal. That’s close. And very, very revealing.
John wants to tell his readers something very important. It is something that he knows and it’s something he understands. It’s something he has told verbally, since the death and resurrection of Jesus, possibly hundreds of times over the years. Anyone who reads the book of John, carefully, deliberately, word for word, with a heart to understand, will by the end of the book stand beside Jesus with shoes as big as John’s.
So, as we’re about to begin, if you like, grab a cuppa and a cookie, and we’ll continue our journey together through the Gospel of John.
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