By myself I can do nothing

John 5:30-47

This is Jesus talking. The man who started his public ministry by headline making miracle of turning water into wine, the man who returned the Jewish leader's daughter to life when everyone knew that she was well and truly dead. Here he is saying that he can do nothing by himself.

I get up in the morning, I go downstairs, I fill the kettle with water, I make tea, I drink tea, I start to think, I read my Bible and say my prayers and sometimes in all this- even the reading and the praying I think about the fact that God is with me and that he might have a plan for my day. I am not a miracle worker. My tea is tea. How much more so than Jesus should I take God into my head. Jesus wants my relationship with God to be the same as his. An awesome challenge for a control freak.

¹⁹ Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. ²² Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.