THE WORD BECAME FLESH

Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter 

Acts 5:17-26

Ps 93

John 3:16-21

God so loved the world...

One of the great verses of John’s gospel is to be found at the beginning of our gospel reading this morning (Jn3:16-21), ‘God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him... may have eternal life’. That statement has been a source of inspiration for many believers over the centuries. The evangelist declares that Jesus, God’s Son, reveals God’s love for the world and each of us individually. All authentic love is life-giving, and God’s love, revealed in the coming of Jesus, is life-giving to an exceptional degree. 

God gave us his Son so that we might have life and have it to the full, what this morning’s gospel reading calls ‘eternal life’. Therein lies the gospel, the good news of God’s loving and life-giving initiative toward us. The fourth evangelist is also clear that God’s initiative needs our response if it is to be effective. We need to come to God’s Son, to come out into the light, in the words of the gospel reading. Having come to God’s Son, we need to remain in him, to remain in his love, and we do that by keeping his word, by living out his new commandment to love one another as he has loved us. God has given his Son to us; it falls to us to give ourselves to God’s Son. Then we will indeed have life and have it to the full.

Let us pray: Lord Jesus Christ, your death brought life for us. Fill us with your Holy Spirit that we may walk in freedom and joy in the knowledge of your great victory over sin and death. Amen 

+Remain blessed