Jesus Communicates His Heart
“Jesus also talks to his disciples in a way that beautifully demonstrates the intimate relationship he had with them. This is a dynamic and profound passage, filled with love, tenderness, and pathos. Jesus has spent three years with these men, and he is now just hours from the end of this life on earth with these friends. In spite of knowing that Peter — one of his closest companions — would deny him, Judas would betray him, and Thomas would doubt him, Jesus drew them all close with his words and bared his heart. Notice how Jesus used the emotion-laden word pictures of an abandoned orphan and the pain of a woman in childbirth (John 14:18, 16:21) to communicate his heart. I always read this passage slowly — it feels like I’m in a holy place.”
John Wimber, Prayer: Intimate Communication (Anaheim: Vineyard Ministries International, 1997), 9.
