THROUGH HIM THE WORLD MIGHT BE SAVED

PRAYER PAUSE

Wednesday 11 April 2018

THROUGH HIM THE WORLD MIGHT BE SAVED

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.” (John 3:16-21)

Reflection. We speak of ‘salvation.’ What is it? As a small boy I nearly drowned but I was ‘saved.’ A doctor ‘saves’ a life through treatment. A person repents of their way of life and experiences a new life. How does salvation ‘happen’? It calls for going back to the source. Crying out for help. Admitting I am lost. Nicodemus is searching, hesitant he comes by night. In John 7:50-52 he speaks openly to his colleagues. In John 19:39 he goes courageously to Pilate. He sets out on a journey from this chapter 3 to chapter 19. He is ‘saved’. He gets his life in order. Things become as they should be, as they were meant to be in the plan of God. Jesus and Nicodemus work together to achieve this goal. So it is always and everywhere – with us as daughters and sons of God in our own lives and for the world as the family of God.  

Prayer. Lord, Saviour of the world, help us to come to you, by night, by day, to seek your help; to put things right in our own hearts and in the world.  Amen