Hello everyone, my name is Elise Brooklyn, and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily Gospels together.
Let’s get started.
Today is Tuesday, April 8th, and we’ll be reading John 8, 21 through 30.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read John 8, 21 through 30.
Again he said to them, I go away and you will seek me and die in your sin.
Where I am going, you cannot come.
Then said the Jews, will he kill himself since he says, where I’m going, you cannot come?
He said to them, you are from below.
I am from above.
You are of this world.
I am not of this world.
I told you that you would die in your sins, for I will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.
They said to him, who are you?
Jesus said to them, even what I told you from the beginning.
I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.
They did not understand that he spoke to them of the father.
So Jesus said, when you have lifted up the son of man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak thus as the father taught me.
And he who sent me is with me.
He has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.
As he spoke thus, many believed in him.
My family and I are not very into social media.
We don’t have accounts or spend much time looking through newscasts and thoughts and ideas of others.
It’s okay if you are.
I don’t say it today to make you feel bad.
Just remember, we are supposed to look to Jesus for the answers, not the world.
Jesus was straight to the point that he was the way to the father, even if people didn’t want to or couldn’t understand what he was saying.
Jesus stood by his unchanging truth.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit.
Dear God, even though there are obstacles in this world, help us to always remember that you are the true unchanging truth.
Amen.
In the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit.
Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya.