Sunday, November 5th
Jesus said, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so must
the Son of Man be lifted up"
John 3: 14

All life must be offering if it is to fulfil the Father's loving purpose. All love must be giving, and in that giving is the challenge of yet more living and loving. But the loving must be sacrificial if it is to achieve that which the Father wills and purposes, namely the well-being and perfection of the beloved in the Name of Him who redeems and perfects all things and people.

So was it that the Son of Man, the firstborn of the new creation, became the first and ultimate offering in love and self-giving, suffering all contumelies, ignominies and aggression in the brief moment if time which had access to all time by virtue of the Father's love and the Son's loving immolation.

And as each and every beloved child of the Father emerges from the cocoon of natural self-love, glimpsing , however dimly and briefly the challenge of fulfilment of eternal life, so must each and every one become willingly and lovingly lifted into the pattern of identification with the cost which the Son has offered to all who follow in faith and love.