Scripture: John 6:56-69
When we deal with life, we always seem to have good reasons for why we do things. We go to school to get a job. We get a job to earn a living. We do things for fun, for love or for health. Those reasons we go to for why we do things have a way of becoming our gods if we trust in them to give us life. Yet, often the very things we seek after for security end up accusing us, judging us and condemning us to death.
Jesus offers us something quite different -- he give us himself to eat. He promises us that he will deal with our lives by using mercy and resurrection. Yes, he dies to do that for us, and then he rises from death too! Where shall we go to find such a reason for what we do that raises us from death? Where shall we go to find relief from judgment and death? We go to Jesus, our crucified and risen Lord --
and we are not disappointed.
Prayer: Father of Life, fill our hearts with Jesus, so that he becomes the reason we do things. Let him be our God, our forgiver, the one who raises us from death. Let us live as those who forgive. Amen.
When we deal with life, we always seem to have good reasons for why we do things. We go to school to get a job. We get a job to earn a living. We do things for fun, for love or for health. Those reasons we go to for why we do things have a way of becoming our gods if we trust in them to give us life. Yet, often the very things we seek after for security end up accusing us, judging us and condemning us to death.
Jesus offers us something quite different -- he give us himself to eat. He promises us that he will deal with our lives by using mercy and resurrection. Yes, he dies to do that for us, and then he rises from death too! Where shall we go to find such a reason for what we do that raises us from death? Where shall we go to find relief from judgment and death? We go to Jesus, our crucified and risen Lord --
and we are not disappointed.
Prayer: Father of Life, fill our hearts with Jesus, so that he becomes the reason we do things. Let him be our God, our forgiver, the one who raises us from death. Let us live as those who forgive. Amen.