John 12:44-50 – The end of the beginning


Jesus proclaimed: 

The person who believes in me
does not only believe in me,
but principally in the one who sent me.

And the one who sees me
Sees the one who sent me. 

I have come into the world as light
so that everyone who believes in me
Should not remain in the darkness. 

And if someone hears my words,
And does not keep them
I do not judge them.

For I have not come to judge the world.
But to save the world. 

The one who rejects me and does not receive my words
has a judge. 

The word which I have spoken
– that judges them on the last day

Because I have not spoken on my own authority,
but the one who sent me, my Father himself,  has given a command
– what to say and how to say it. 
And I know that his command leads to resurrection life. 

So what I speak, I speak just as  the Father has said.

O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.

Gertrude the Great

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