Today, I am reading and commenting on John 14-16.

I went back and forth about what to write about today’s passage.  As I first started reading I immediately thought that I would write about Jesus telling His disciples that He was the way, the truth, and the life.  Then as I read on, I was struck by how Jesus’ promise to His disciples that if the world hates them, it hated Him first.  I was torn about which to write about, but then I realized that they went together.  The world hates Jesus because He is the truth and tells the truth.  The world does not want there to be such a thing as truth.  Instead they want truth to be what they say it is, and if they want it to be something else tomorrow, then tomorrow it will be something else.  They do not want to have to follow Jesus in order to get to the Father.  They want to be able to do what they think is right (which is what they think will keep them from facing the negative consequences of their actions) and still speak with God.  They want to not need to look to God, they want to be God.  Unfortunately, this means that they will hate those who insist on telling them the truth.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.