Coming up with answers to questions is much easier than it used to be. With the sound of your voice, you can get answers by simply asking your phone. But how do we know what it says is the truth? It's just telling us what's on the Internet. If you really want to know, you need to look for answers yourself. And if you want answers about Jesus, please know he wants you to search for the truth of who he is. He's even open to you asking him questions directly. Jesus' friends did this all the time. And in response to one of those questions, he responded, "I am the way and the truth and the life." Jesus tells us that because we have seen him, we know the only way to friendship with God. As we connect with Jesus and learn to live, pray, believe, and love God and others as he did, we know what it means to truly live because Jesus is truth.
WEEK 1 Maybe you have gone to a concert or been dancing, and if it is loud enough, you can feel the music reverberate in your body. That's because even though you can't see it, sound is a physical thing that impacts the space you are in. That means when you are in a conversation and someone, for example, introduces you to who they are, they alter reality around you. Wild right?! So, in John 10, when we hear Jesus tell us he is a good shepherd who lays his life down for his sheep, Jesus is telling us something that changes our reality. In Jesus, we have someone who loves us deeply and desires for us to have an eternal life that starts right now, even if that costs him everything. When Jesus tells us who he is, he says he loves us and would lay down his life for us. I hope, this week, you hear God's voice reverberate in your body with the reality- changing understanding that Jesus is love.