John 12 WHERE I AM. The Lord Jesus is sitting at a table with an unusual group around. Lazarus is there recently brought back from the ground. Judas is there who is preparing to betray the Lord for money Peter, James and John who were closer to Him than many. The other disciples were there not really knowing who they were following; Martha was busy serving, she had made that work her calling. Mary too was there worshipping – looking beyond what they were sharing Pouring spikenard on Jesus’ feet that she had stored in view of His burying; He was the “corn of wheat” that soon into the grave would lie – Soon the great harvest would come from the death that He would die.
Multitudes were awaiting the coming deliverance by the King Wanting the freedom and glory they were hoping He would bring. They gathered by the road expecting a victory parade Thinking perhaps this was the day they from Roman rule were freed. They heard He raised the dead by the power of His deity So maybe He would kill the living and as King take authority. The watching Greeks came closest to understanding what all saw; They wanted to see the Person who had filled their hearts with awe. The King is who we honor, not the promised “kingdom come”; The “corn of wheat” that died is the life-producing One.
The Father glorified His name through the service of His Son The many tasks He came to do He accomplished every one. Never was left undone any work that needed to be, Fully finished so the Son of God could make us truly free; By His death on Calvary’s cross where He was lifted up to die, He made it so every person could through Jesus’ death draw nigh To God, and from then on be empowered to live in divine light. No longer children of darkness who struggle in the night Here on earth today we spend time with Jesus in our midst – And enjoy new life and blessings because we are where He is.
“O Gracious Eternal God: in faith I respond to the assuring words “Where I am they may be also.” My thoughts are towards the fact of the ever-present God being here with us and so often we are not really aware of the fact. I pray that the sense of the presence of God will be a continual fact in my life. Perhaps in that way I won’t make so many mistakes and be such a failure. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”