The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
I reading this passage as part of my Quiet Time and it really struck a chord with me.
I can imagine what was going through Nathanael’s head: What? the Messiah, the one who the OT prophets foretold would restore the nation of Israel would come Nazareth…that place?!
I have been guilty of the very same attitude. There have been people that I have dismissed for some reason or another. They don’t seem mature enough. They don’t seem committed enough. They are this or they are that rah, rah, rah. Yet they have been the people who have surprised me the most with their desire and desire to grow in Christ more and more.
It makes sense. Who are we to determine who can or cannot make an impact for God? Since when did going to the right school, uni or coming from the right side of the tracks meant a single thing to God? How can we, of our own nature, contribute anything significant to the kingdom of God? By our own strength? I don’t think so?
Can anything good come out from that girl who’s on the fringe or from the person who skips church every second week?
Come and See
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