AM - Psalm 50, 59 and 60
PM - Psalm 19 and 46
Gospel - John 3:16-21
For reflection: When did you begin to see God as saving you rather than condemning you?
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John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
Reflection:
God has given us the opportunity to be saved, rather than condemned. We were already condemned before accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. As the scripture in John 3:18 says, I never thought I was going to be condemned (I was already condemned); I thought I deserved it all, even heaven. How wrong I was!
The Scriptures remind us we should not love this present world so much that we would not want to leave it. God has called us to believe in Him and love Him above everything. Our citizenship is in heaven, as stated in Philippians 3:20, and we should long for the day we will join our Savior in the place he has prepared for us.
Do you hope for heaven? This should be our goal. Let us ask the Lord to give us the eternal perspective so that we all look forward to the day He returns to make us perfect and complete. Praise our Lord Jesus Christ!
- Armando Perdomo
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