09/19/2026
Good morning!! Please Please Read! I know it maybe long!
He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him." (John 1:11)
My husband and I were having one of our deep conversations recently, and he asked something that stuck with me: why don't people receive others sometimes — is it the tone, the delivery, or just because of who is saying it? He wondered out loud, "I wonder if people even understand sometimes."
As he spoke, John 1:11 rose up in my spirit. Then I heard the Lord speak plainly: How can they receive what they don't even try to understand?
He reminded me — they couldn't receive Him when He walked the earth, not because the evidence wasn't there, but because they refused to understand who He truly was. They saw the miracles. They heard the words of life. And still, many hardened their hearts rather than open their understanding.
That's the pattern, even now. People don't always reject the message — sometimes they reject it because they never tried to understand the messenger. The tone gets blamed. The familiarity gets in the way. "It's just you" becomes the excuse not to receive what's actually being offered.
Be encouraged: if Jesus — full of truth, full of love, full of undeniable proof — was still met with unbelief, you are in good company when you're misunderstood or dismissed. It doesn't mean the word in you was wrong. It doesn't mean you delivered it poorly. It may simply mean the hearer stopped short of understanding.
Keep speaking. Keep walking in truth, even when it's not received the way you hoped. Understanding is not your job to force — it's theirs to pursue. And those who do press past the surface to truly understand will receive not just your words, but the life behind them.
