For God So Loved The World

 

 John 3: 14-21

Light has come into the world

¹⁴ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵ that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

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.

Here in the United States we have begun Daylight Saving Time, a practice begun in 1918 during World War I as a means of conserving energy by arranging the clock to give more daylight to the work day. Our Gospel helps us to focus on the Light, who is Jesus and urges us to live in the light of truth  It is reassuring to read that God so loves us that he sent Jesus to provide the Light that overcomes the darkness, which we continually seem to choose, and that this Light will always extricate us from the darkness that plagues us. On this Fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday, (Rejoice Sunday), may we set aside time to reflect on how effective the Light has been in our lives and where patches of darkness remain. May the Light of Christ illumine our path as we continue our journey to Easter.

Bro. Rene