Love in Action
. But Jesus isn’t trying to be God. Jesus is being Jesus. And in his human strengths and vulnerabilities, the God of love is with him. And in his teaching, healing, and forgiving, God’s love is put into action.
Jesus asks us to put down our stones today and to follow the law of love. The God of love is in us. God walks with us on the road of forgiveness, serves with our hands of goodness and kindness, and helps with our hearts of compassion. God’s love does.
What will you do with me today, God?
How am I letting go of being right and becoming more loving?
May the Christ who walks on wounded feet, walk with us on our road;
May the Christ who serves with wounded hands, teach us to stretch out our hands to serve;
May the Christ who loves with a wounded heart, help us to love one another;
May we see the face of Jesus in everyone we meet and may everyone we meet see the face of Jesus in us.
Amen.
The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39 Again they tried to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
40 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John at first baptized, and there he remained. 41 And many came to him; and they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42 And many believed in him there.