“Come and see” … Jesus’s irresistible invitation

Morning: Psalm 31; Deuteronomy 7:12-16; Titus 2:1-15

Evening: Psalm 35; John 1:35-42

Jesus is a figure whose very way of being attracts people.  John says Jesus will “baptize … with the Spirit”.  For Andrew and Simon, the disciples who hear this first, it signifies ancient (but still relevant) promises – freedom, fulfilment, healing, peace.  They find Jesus’s invitation irresistible … “Come and see”, he says, and they go.  Maybe people in our day resist the Spirit because Jesus’s followers down the ages have argued so much about things of the Spirit?  Recover the simple promise of the Spirit that Andrew and Peter heard, though, and Jesus’s invitation may prove irresistible again to us.