Milford Church of Christ

In John 6, Jesus confronts a crowd that wanted His blessing but resisted His Lordship. While many were willing to admire Jesus, receive His gifts, and enjoy His miracles, they struggled when He called for complete trust and surrender. That passage challenges us to ask whether we are seeking Jesus for what He provides or because He alone has the words of eternal life.

Jesus cleanses the Temple during Passover, exposing worship that had become corrupt, transactional, and self-focused. He reveals that the Temple always meant to point to Him, the true presence of God, and the source of access to the Father. Worship that honors God begins with repentance, flows from love, serves the body, and moves outward on mission.

In John 1, we see that every true encounter with Jesus begins with a searching heart and ends with a call to follow and tell others. While many were looking for a conquering king, Jesus revealed Himself as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. The question Jesus asked then;“What do you seek?” Is the same question He asks every person today.

John begins his Gospel by taking us behind the manger and back into eternity, revealing that Jesus is the eternal Word who is fully God and was with God from the beginning. He is also the Creator through whom all things came into being. Because He is the source of life and light, the only fitting response is not admiration, but worshipful surrender and stepping into His light.

Luke 1:5–25; Luke 2:1–7; Galatians 4:4–5God’s timing often feels slow to us, especially in seasons of waiting and silence, but Scripture reminds us that He is never late and never absent. Through the birth of Jesus, the long silence before John the Baptist, and the lives of ordinary people like Zechariah, Elizabeth, Mary, and Joseph, we see that God is always working purposefully, even when we cannot see it.