Unwritten

 

Unwritten

Hey! Welcome back, it's good to have you this week. I've been trying to come up with something to blog about for a few days now, trying to find a lesson that needed to be taught right now. I really wanted to focus on something in the Old Testament because we have been focusing on the New Testament quite a bit. The more I tried to limit it though, the more difficulty I had. Putting a limit on God never works out for us, and actually led me to today's passage. 

It's found in John 21:25:

²⁵ Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

This verse is located as the last thing that we read in the gospels. The last book of the bible that is explicitly about Jesus, retelling His life story and this is what John leaves us with.  We have seen four straight books of the wonders and works that Jesus has been able to do, and John gives us the closure that we need not that we want.

How many of you have ever read a book or seen a movie before that you just wish didn't have to end. You came to the end and it didn't seem real or right that the movie was ending. For me it was a tv show called Boy Meets World. I grew up watching this show, and when it came to an end after seven fantastic season, I can remember the tears flowing down my face. This seemed to be a natural reaction. My journey alongside the characters in this show had come to an end.

We seek definition. These things go on in our lives we want to know that there is more to the story. By adding an ending to something the mystery goes away. The human mind seeks things to end so that it can better understand and gain a grasp of the situation. If something doesn't end and one doesn't know the details, then curiosity can grab the better of that person. 

So why doesn't John allow us to have an end? Because we are supposed to wonder. When someone tells me just a slight something about a particular place or thing, I make it my job to try to learn everything that I can about this place or thing. You see it would be easy for us to close the book of John up and say that Jesus was such an incredible man and He did so many great things. However we wouldn't be giving Him the honor and glory He deserves. Jesus hasn't finished His work yet. He is coming back, and that is why it is unwritten. 

Jesus called us to act, now. He called us to love, now. He called us to be His hands and feet, to carry out His work while He was away. You see by losing the wonder of Christ, by forgetting that His work, His story, is not yet finished we can move on easily. I no longer worry about what is going to happen to Harry Potter, because it is finished. I don't have to worry about what happens to Frodo Baggins because his story has ended. 

Jesus hasn't finished yet. There is still a world out there that needs His love and affection. Until all have seen His love, Jesus will never be finished. His story is still being written at this very moment, the question is....what will you help contribute to it? 

Thank you for reading, and God bless.