Come and See

With his two disciples standing next to him, John the Baptist points to Jesus and cries out, "Behold the Lamb of God!"

When the two disciples heard this, immediately they followed Jesus. Jesus turns around to them and asks, "What do you seek?"

The two disciples asked, "Rabbi, where are You staying?"

Jesus said to them, "Come and see."

Following day, Jesus found Philip and said to him, "Follow Me."

Philip was so excited and he wanted to share this great joy with his buddy, Nathanael. Philip runs to Nathanael and shouts, "We have found him, Jesus of Nazareth?"

Uninterested, Nathanael responds, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?

Philip said to him, "Come and see."

I got excited as I read this story in John 1. I read this chapter numerously before but all this time I was only focusing on the beginning part of the chapter which talks about the Word, and the Word becoming the flesh. But this time, as I read the chapter once again, I saw this very invitation, "Come and see."

Jesus invites us to "Come and see." Many times, we tend to be ignorant and uninterested like Nathanael. Or we could be like the two disciples wondering about where this Man is staying. We tend to look for a solid evidence before actually stepping up to meet Jesus. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, yet our doubts, uncertainty, carelessness become obstacles and hold us down when the invitation is given to "Come and see."

Indeed when Nathanael finally met Jesus his confession was, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

When Jesus invites us we need to welcome that invitation and step up to see for ourselves who Jesus is and what He has done for me. We should not hesitate but rise up to that call. And when we respond to that invitation, our confession will be, "Jesus you are the Son of God! You are the King of the Universe!"

"Come and see."