Nurses just know. They’ve been there, done that. They say, “Just slap a bandaid on it and stop complainin’!” But that same gruff nurse who blows off our ouches and owies as an annoyance will soften like butter in the warm, Texas sun when confronted with a patient who truly needs them.
In John 1:46, Nathanael acts like a jaded nurse when he hears about Jesus. All Nathanael knew was that Jesus was from Nazareth, a town with an apparently seedy reputation. Nathanael judged Jesus based on where Jesus was from — the wrong side of the tracks. Philip’s only response to his friend’s hard heart was a simple invitation, “Come and see.”
Maybe you have heard bad things about Christ and His Christians. Maybe you have witnessed self-professed Christians act in an ungodly manner. Please, don’t judge Jesus by that. Instead, come and see what Jesus is really all about. You can’t do that if you never come and see.
The gospel of John records the appeal to come and see Jesus twice. In a book as short of John, he gives a lot of emphasis to the concept in repetition. The invitation echoes down through the ages nearly two thousand years later. That invitation is for you. Come and see.
Join us on Sunday. We would love to meet you! We would love even more to sit down over an open Bible and study what “come and see” really means. Come and see.
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