Quiet Time Reflection

John 1:16-17
And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

So I was reading John this morning and I read quite a few chapters but then I decided to read it again when I got to the house of prayer. The part that stuck out in my heart was John 1:16-17. I had a question about 16 because I didn’t quite understand what it meant by grace for grace, unless grace was given over the grace we had but this grace would fulfill all and lead us to the cross, to His face, to His presence. And the second part is mind blowing. Not to diminish the law because the word clearly says that nothing diminishes the law. My heart burns because I know that only grace and truth comes from the king. By His grace we can know truth. John 8: 31-32 Jesus said, ´If you hold to my teachings, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.´
I love the word order because it states, THEN you will know the truth. How can we know the truth, only by holding onto His teachings. His very word gives us life because without it we will be deceived because we will not have known the truth that came into the world and that is with those who believe. John 6:51 ´I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever.´ We seek for knowledge in this generation but the truth sets us free and we know the truth by holding onto His teachings which come only by eating the bread of life which gives us eternal life which is Jesus who is the very Word of God.
CHRIST JESUS, thank you. Father I glorify your name because I know that you will set me free, the truth sets me free because you set me free and you are the truth. Father I repent for my sins in every way, help me to shut my mouth to submit to your will and all that you desire. How I long to lay down my life for the sake of Christ and his kingdom. Father I know that I need grace, that I can’t do anything without it so I am seeking the truth. I’m seeking to hold onto your precepts your ways your laws so that I might be free in Christ Jesus. Lord consume my soul with your truth and let me lay down my life so that I might know the truth. Take away all pride, all anger, all hate, all self-pity and sadness so that I can see the light which is Christ Jesus. John 1:5 ´The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome (understand) it.´ Christ I pray not to have a hardened hard, Yea of Little faith, oh how this applies to my own heart. At times we don’t understand how the apostles time and time again couldn’t fathom how God was going to work out His miracles, yet I know that I am no different. Christ at times I can’t even fathom your love, how lost am I. Yet thanks be to Christ Jesus for His mercy and Grace that I am redeemed and you pour out your love and grace time and time again so that I can remember the glory of the King in whom I serve. I feel so weak, so incapable, so without the ability in anyway to do a shred of what you desire and what will please you, yet I cry out to you Christ with the hope that you will show me grace and pick me up from the ground and out of love let me serve you let me lay at your feet. If all you desire is for me to sit and wait I will do it because I am not worthy yet I cry out to the King. Christ show me your way, set me free by your word, your love, your truth. Christ I need and love you.