God Comes to Man_05PT4

God Comes to Man_05PT4 John 1:35-51Jesus in these last verses of 35-51.We see Jesus picking His first five disciples.He's looking for you, so that you can enjoy a relationship with him. And he's looking within you, because he sees the person you can be, not just the person you used to be.And he's looking ahead of you, because he has big plans for your life and you can do great things in his name.
So, come and see.Our passage picks up after Jesus was identified by John the baptist as the Messiah and was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit which marked the beginning of his ministry. One of his first actions is to call people to follow him as disciples. A disciple is someone who was intent on learning to be like the person they were following with a good modern day synonym being an "apprentice". They were not learning jobs skills or classroom info though, they were learning what it meant to live a God centered life and to live like their teacher. We learn in our passage today that Jesus invites people to come and see and abide in him because he fully knows them and is God himself drawing near.Jesus begins his ministry by calling his first followers. In our passage we see Jesus respond to the curiosity of two followers with an invitation to come and see.Discipleship is about abiding in Jesus where we follow him to learn how to live as he lived and walk with God. Jesus invites the curious to come and see and to abide in him because he has drawn near to us.