Year 5, Day 268: John 20

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Discipleship Focus: Competency

• Competency: Being able to accomplish what one is called to do.

I’m going to take a bit of a strange approach on this blog post today.  This post is going to stem from John’s summary note in John 20:30-31.  Why did John write this Gospel?  John wrote this Gospel so that we might believe and that we might have life in His name.  John wrote this Gospel so that we might be competent followers of Christ.  John wrote this Gospel so that we would have the courage and faith to respond to God as He calls us.

In a sense, John wants us to be like Mary.  Mary met Jesus and carried His Gospel to the Twelve.  Even if they didn’t believe her at first, she was still competent because she had heard the story for herself.

John wants us to be like the Twelve.  They might have doubted Mary at first, but after they heard the story from Jesus Himself they believed.  After they heard the story, they were able to be competent followers of Christ.

John even wants us to be like Thomas.  We’ll have moments of doubt.  We’ll have moments where faith is hard to come by.  But John wrote this Gospel so that once we’ve heard the story of Jesus we too would be competent in spite of our doubt.

This Gospel is written so that we would be competent.  John wants us to be able to accomplish what God the Father has called us to do.  Some days that will be hard.  On those days especially we will need the story of Jesus to inspire us and give us a model of godly living.

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