Hello, Merry Mystics!
I’ve been working as a pastor, and part of that work is writing and delivering a new sermon every week. But there’s a paradox at the heart of all such work, and all religious teaching: the very thing we most want to communicate is a thing that can’t be put into words. Sometimes, as Philip said to Nathanael in that story at the start of the Gospel of John, you just have to come and see.
Here’s a (typically wordy) song about that: Come and See.
Can’t find link to sermon you mention in email. Is there one?
Hi Isaura,
You can find the sermons on the right hand side of my home page, under “Sermons and Such”. The one I mentioned is here. Thanks!
You did a good job trying to find the words. I agree that sometimes you just have to experience it. Your words are reaching me in northeastern Pennsylvania. Thanks!
Thanks, Pamela!
Thank you, Adam. I love that story of Nathaneal and Phillip. Since it is no longer possible to ” come and see” Jesus in the flesh to follow Him, we are invited to come to church, to learn from other Believers, and to read and study Jesus’s words in the Bible. We may feel the need for Jesus in our lives, but God does the rest with His overwhelming love and unending grace.
When i was a teen trying to discern what career path to follow and what college to choose, my church (Methodist) offered a summer camp to help us do that as a “come and see” opportunity. Every evening there was a Tabernacle service to summarize the day’s class/life lessons and to offer to come down to the altar for prayers and individual counseling. I truly wanted to ” come and see”, but was so shy and embarrassed to make such a public act. Then I felt pushed up out of my chair and pulled down the aisle to the front. I had opened my heart enough for God’s Holy Spirit to rush in. That night was the start of my journey with Christ. God knew me and invitedbme to “come and see”.
Your lyrics gave me a new way to “see” the message of God’s love I learned from Ephesians 7-11.