The Gospel of Jesus is an announcement, “God reigns.” No matter the darkness of the night, or of our souls, or of the corrupt behaviour infecting our lands. God reigns. The Gospel of Jesus has a historical reach that includes all the time humanity experiences. In fact God has exceeded our imaginations: before Creation the Communion of God existed. All we see in the cosmos has its origin in Him.
The Apostle John has written his book, so “you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may life in his name.” (John 20:31) Let’s read this Gospel with John’s intention: to believe and to receive the life Jesus gives.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome
John 1:1-5, NIV
This morning I was reading the Prophet Jeremiah in chapters 21-23. Not pleasant. Even Jeremiah himself felt the weight of God’s Word in respect to the days to come. He says, “My heart is broken with in me…” (Jeremiah 23:9) Yet in the midst of God’s judgment on the kings and the prophets, and the people, God offers glimmers of hope.
5“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,“when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch ,a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. 6In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord Our Righteous Savior.
Jeremiah 23:5-6
If there is darkness; The Lord is still present. If there is light; The Lord is present with us.
This morning I looked through the spaces between my house and our neighbour’s house; this is what I saw:
O wee moon sliver
it’s morning and I see thee.
The Day cometh soon.
In the Gospel of Jesus we have the announcement: we — all people — live now between the Resurrection and the Return of Jesus. His light shines. Generations of people lived between the Creation and The Cross. But we live now between Jesus’– life-death-burial-resurrection-ascension AND His return. We have much in common with people on the “other side of the Cross of Jesus,” including this: the light of God has never, never, never ever stopped shining.