Hope in the Seeking

John 13:33 KJV

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

There is a prophecy of doom and also of hope in this passage. Jesus told the disciples that He would be removed from them shortly. There was of course great pain in the loss and also in the way of the loss. The disciples had such hopes and expectations as followers of Christ and their loss of Him meant also the loss of those dreams. Then in the horrific way of Christ’s death would be a foreboding of their own fates. Such ugly hatred would surely be inherited of His disciples in this world.

The passage though gives this ray of hope; they would seek Him. And though they could not follow Him then, they would be reunited with Him again.

That action of seeking Him gives rise to the energy and explains the influence of the Lord these two thousand years later. Christ has changed the lives of men and women all of this time because, in seeking Him, we never cease to expect to see Him. He is coming again.

·         As we seek His return, we are changed in the seeking

·         As we are changed, others begin seeking Him with us and

·         As they begin seeking, are changed as well