The Apostle John declared in 1 John 1:3, “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you.”

I thought of that as I reflected on this verse from my reading this morning:

“I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father” (John 8:38).

So, my speaking and my doing reveal what I have observed.

Not only that, my life also exposes who my father is.

Am I showing that I am of the Heavenly Father or that I am of the devil?

Let me be focused on the Heavenly Father. I want Him and His Word to be “that which I have seen.”

That is what I want to speak.

That is what I want to do.

A “strange” verse stood out to me this morning. Somehow it doesn’t seem like the kind of verse to be featured here.

Nevertheless, I found it restful, so here it is:

“Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come” (John 7:30).

I believe as it was with Jesus, so it is with each of us. That is, we live on God’s schedule.

And nothing happens to me outside His knowledge and schedule.

Let me remember and rest in that also.