Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. 

"Rabbi," the disciples told him, "just now the Jews tried to stone you, and you're going there again?"

"Aren't there twelve hours in a day?" Jesus answered. 

"If anyone walks during the day, he doesn"t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

John 11:5, 8-10 CSB

All these very human responses, Jesus love for his whanau, the disciples concern for his safety, the hostility of the Jews because they felt threatened, and Jesus takes it all to a different place:;

A journey.

Darkness v Light. 

Stumbling or not.

Stumbling or not because of your relationship to the Light.

It's almost as if Jesus isn't speaking to his disciples at all, but directly to us, about our relationship to the Light, to Jesus. 

It's not about never making a mistake, never getting things wrong, that's just being human, it's about our relationship to the Light. Are we journeying with the Light, Jesus, in us, with us. 

This is the season of Emmanuel, God with us. The real stumbles, the ones that affect our spirit, are not the stumbles in this world, but when we're not walking with Jesus, when we drift away, or choose the dark. 

Let the Light in, and keep letting Jesus in to the deepest parts of who we are. 

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