YOUR JOY WILL BE COMPLETE John
16:23-28
June 1, 2019. St Justin
Martyr (+165)
We have been journeying through Easter since 21 April and reading
the Acts and John’s Gospel. Maybe we are getting a little tired of John, day
after day! Maybe we are looking forward to getting back to Matthew, Mark and
Luke where things happen and it is not endless words. But it would be a pity if
we lose the accumulative effect of the discourses in John where he gradually
builds up a relationship between the disciple and the Lord. We are being drawn,
step by step, into the intimacy of life in the Trinity. ‘Where do you live?’
they had asked in chapter 1. Well here, in these last chapters, Jesus reveals
that he lives in the Father and if anyone loves him that person will be drawn
into this life in the Father and the Son through the Spirit.
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