I work with the Day of Discovery TV crew. When we are making a film about someone’s life, we especially like speaking with those who knew the person well. Over the years we’ve talked with a man who shared a room with Eric Liddell in an internment camp in China; a woman who as a teenager lived in the home of C. S. Lewis during World War II; and a man who chauffeured Dr. George Washington Carver on a speaking tour throughout southern America. They all spoke freely and openly about the special person they knew.

When John, one of Jesus’ 12 disciples, was an old man, he wrote a letter in which his opening words explained he was an eyewitness and close companion of Jesus: “The life was [made known], and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was [made known] to us” (1 John 1:2). His goals in writing were “that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ” (v.3) and “that your joy may be full” (v.4).

The eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ disciples help lead us to faith in Christ. Even though we have not seen Him as they did, we have believed.

Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. —Jesus

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David C. McCasland

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