What do You Seek? Devo, John 1:35-42

John the Baptizer introduces two of his disciples to Jesus—Andrew and Simon Peter. We don’t often think about these two having first been disciples of John the Baptizer. After John introduced them to Jesus and upon hearing Jesus teach, the two men started following Jesus. Jesus asked them a question we should all consider, “What do you seek?”

In response, Andrew and Peter asked Jesus where He was staying—not really an answer to Jesus’s question. Perhaps their answer resonates with our own. Many of us don’t really know what we are seeking or searching for. Just as Jesus invited Andrew and Peter into His life even though they didn’t know what they sought, He also invites us into His life. I find this truth to be highly encouraging. No matter what we are searching for, Jesus invites us to follow Him and find life.

Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?” He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. One of the two who heard John speak and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He found first his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ). He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).