“I Am God’s Son”

Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

“We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’? If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed, and many people came to him. They said, “Though John never performed a sign, all that John said about this man was true.” And in that place many believed in Jesus.

John 10:31-42

We don’t ever have to talk about ourselves. We should talk about what Jesus Christ has done as Light of the World in forgiving our sins.

Our aim, as followers of Christ, is to bear witness to the Light of the World. We’re just ordinary people serving God in our quiet little corners of the world. With our quiet deeds and words, we should point people to the Light.

Christians are ordinary people who are committed

to the extraordinary person of Christ.

Our Daily Bread – February 22, 2012