Insights Outside The Walls

John 3: 31-36

“The one who comes from above testifies to what they have seen and heard.”

Sometimes that’s just a bit different from prevailing religious thought.  It was for Jesus.  That’s why he was killed.

What have you seen and heard?  What is the truth of your spiritual journey in life?  How do you give witness to that?  Has it gotten you in trouble with prevailing religious thought?

I think of the many people who challenge me by giving witness to goodness, kindness, self giving, sacrificial love – by never saying a word.  They simply live it.  They preach by the way they live.  I think this is the most authentic witness that we can give to “what we have seen and heard.”  When someone is able to see that I am able to grab onto faith in the midst of crisis, when someone sees that I am concerned for others, when someone is fed and calmed by my presence – I am a witness to what I have seen and heard, I am a witness to what I have read, digested, what I have prayed and meditated.

What message is my life speaking today?