What Is The Main Thing Jesus Wants Us To Know?

 My mind is thinking, this morning, about the Easter story and all that comes to us in that sort part of Jesus’ life.

First I was a remembering Jesus command to love, after he washed the disciple’s feet. A lowly task done by the lowest slave in the home.   On the night before he was taken prisoner Jesus was giving them a most important of life lessons.  The lesson of humility.

Then he gave them a “new commandment”  to love, and do to each other, as he had just demonstrated to them.  

Be “a servant” he told them. Care for each other.  Don’t be exclusive, or arrogant, or rude.

He was trying to tell them what they needed to understand the most before; he left them to their own decision making life journey.

Then my jumped to the last chapter in John where Jesus was making the disciple's breakfast, after a long night of unsuccessful fishing.  

First he gave them a miraculous catch.  

Then asked them to share some of their catch to put on the grill. A clever way to tell them that they are called to share what we have been blessed with.

Which prompted my mind to Peter and Jesus’ conversation after breakfast.  First he asks Peter if he loves him — three times.  And then tells him: “feed my lambs, “tend my sheep,” “feed my sheep.”

Not only is this small little paragraph about providing and caring for others.  It is also about forgiveness; a forgiveness that isn’t specifically mentioned in the story.

There is so much information, in John’s Gospel, for us to pay close attention to.  It is difficult to do the messages justice in one blog. 

So I will leave you with all of my thinking for now.  Hoping that it sparks some thoughts for you to ponder on.