Greetings on the fourth Sunday in Lent, Laetare Sunday, festooned with rose vestments and hangings. The midpoint of our continuing journey of reflection this Lent.
Our invitation to worship recognizes Jesus is the true bread of life which sustains us in the vagary of life. Our first lesson from first Samuel tells of God’s withdrawal of blessing from Saul and the anointing of David as his successor as King of Israel. The psalmist offers a song which describes God’s providence and guidance for all creation. The reading from the letter to the Ephesians reminds believers that they have been in the darkness of the world yet, in Christ, they have a pathway to the light. The reading from John’s gospel recounts Jesus healing the man born blind on the sabbath and all the consternation that caused with the Pharisees and the disciples.
As our Lenten journey continues, we are reminded that our life of faith is better described than it is explained. Just like the man born blind and healed by Jesus smearing mud on his eyes then washing in Siloam, we probably can’t say exactly how our faith works but we can describe how we realize our faith works. Plus, even if we could explain how our faith works those steps may not work for anybody else’s faith. All we, as Christians, are called to do is to allow God to make us whole and tell the story of our healing, even when we can’t make sense of how we are healed. Our job is to bear images of God so that others can see God at work in their world.
How are we called to work in community to refine how we tell our story of faith? For whom are you called to provide witness to a real conversion and spiritual wholeness? I invite your comments,
Les+
Lessons: 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41
Sermon link: https://audiomack.com/fatherles-2/song/lent-4-sermon-2
