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What Jesus tells his disciples is the certainty they seek is in the keeping of his commandments, which should be far more evident to us than it is.
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Jesus speaks of the way to the Father and two disciples ask for certainty and clarity. The response they get is “you already know” and “wake up.”
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In this encounter with the disciples, Jesus names his confidence in the disciples, in what they know. And they’re like, you can’t be serious.
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Some treat certainty as a pre-condition for belief, rather than something that comes through the process of coming to believe.
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The image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is comforting to many, but there is a problem with the way we aren’t listening to it.
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Jesus as shepherd is such a traditional image that its power to evoke is often granted easily. Is our own sense of place too easily granted?
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