30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Witnesses! What are they good for? They tell others what they have seen and heard so we can learn from them and not re-invent the wheel every time for ourselves. That's what the Bible is all about. Written through real people as witnesses to God's grace and truth to real people trying to live in God's grace and truth today. If you're like me, you probably had a time in your life, or are still not truly realizing, that the stories in the Bible are about REAL people. I always thought of David and Paul, King Saul and Jonathan as fiction stories, nice with a bit of a moral behind them, but not real. But suddenly, by God's grace, I did understand and came to realize that these were REAL people with REAL everyday problems, exactly the same as what I go through! That was huge for me, because it also made God more REAL to me, that He is actually and truly with me today, just as He was with the people spoken of in the Bible. I need to remember that always!
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