Come & See

This powerful message takes us into John 1:43-51, where we witness Jesus calling Philip and Nathanael to follow Him. The central insight revolves around a profound truth: Jesus sees us before we see Him. The fig tree mentioned in this passage isn't just a physical location—it represents those sacred, private moments where we wrestle with God, pray through our doubts, and pour out our hearts in complete honesty. In Jewish culture, the fig tree was a place of prayer and searching, a symbol of waiting for the Messiah. When Jesus told Nathanael, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' He was saying something revolutionary: I saw you in your most vulnerable moment, in your deepest searching, before you ever came looking for Me. We all have our fig trees—the car where we pray, the pillow we cry into, the sleepless nights filled with anxiety about our children or our future. This message challenges us to recognize that God isn't distant or unaware. He sees every tear, every struggle, every moment of wrestling. Like David wrote in Psalm 56, God collects our tears in a bottle and records each one. The question isn't whether God sees us—it's whether we believe He does, and whether that belief will transform us from skeptics into followers, from attendees into disciples.