I am the koala, Several of my friends agreed that they were a koala. 

I am reading John for Advent, and John is not like the other gospels as we all know. John alternates events with Jesus teaching and dialogues. A very famous verse is set in this dialogue with Nicodemus:

John 3:10-21

New International Version

¹⁰ “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? ¹¹ Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. ¹² I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.^[a] 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^[b] 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”^{[c] 16} For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. ¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. ²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

 I read the paragraph before it, which I mostly do understand, the paragraph after I don't completely understand. 

Then in the Journey through the Bible Study Guide, I found a lesson in ch 3, p25 : 

"In John's Gospel we meet a lot of puzzled characters. The wine steward was puzzled about where the new wine came from. Nicodemus was confused and misunderstood Jesus. The Samaritan woman wondered aloud about the origin of living water. Actually, the characters in John's Gospel were puzzled about the origin and meaning of Jesus himself. 

The puzzlement and confusion is not unlike the ambivalence many have toward Christianity today. Who among even the staunchest of believers has not been confused about Christianity or the meaning of Christ at one time or another. We may not understand certain aspects, certain doctrine, or biblical passages. Our uncertainty may bother us; it may be quite uncomfortable. Occasionally such perplexity is so painful that people give up trying. More often though, confusion leads people to a stronger, deeper faith.The confusion motivates us to learn more, to become seekers after truth. Our faith is as St. Anselm described it - "faith seeking understanding." 

I closed with how we can be about this in our Tabor Vision Team, and our daily lives. 

Jenn