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Daily Devotional with Pastor Jon

March 19

And stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.

John 20:5-8

First, John came to the tomb and saw the linen clothes lying. The word translated ‘saw’ is ‘blepei’, meaning, ‘to look at, to see visibly’.

In verse 6, Peter saw the linen clothes lie, and the word used is ‘theorai’, meaning ‘to study more carefully’, and from which we get our word ‘theory’.

Finally, in verse 8, the word translated ‘saw’ is ‘idein’, from which we get the word ‘idea’ — or ‘I get it.’

I find it interesting that most of the time our faith progresses according to this pattern. That is, first you’re exposed to some piece of information. You hear what the teacher is saying. Then you give it some more thought down the road. And finally comes that moment when you really get it. More than merely a concept theologically, it becomes part of your life personally.

But if you never hear the information, you’ll never be able to embrace it. And that is why you’ll never see the process unfold if you don’t come to the place where you can investigate the claims of Christ. Keep in the Word, gang.

‘But I’m not getting much out of it,’ you say.

You wait. Eventually it will begin to stir something in your thinking, and finally it will become part of your being. Read your Bible. Stay in the Scriptures, and see the process unfold for you even as it did for Peter and John.

This Daily Devotional is an excerpt from the book "A Day's Journey" by Pastor Jon. "A Day's Journey" is a collection of 365 short devotions from the New Testament. If you would like your own copy of "A Day's Journey" you can order one from the SearchLight Store.


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