Thursday, September 14th
The Triumph of the Cross
Numbers 21:4-9. Philippians 2:6-11. John 3:13-19

The Lord your God is Love, and all born into His world are sons or daughters of His love, called to receive all He offers to bring them to the fulness of His Presence in eternity.

And the Way, the Truth, the Life for all responding to the Father’s Love is His beloved and loving Son, His Word and Love Incarnate who entered human life ‘that all may have life and may have it in abundance’. But the means is challenging, costing not less than everything, for ’God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life’. And one and all responding to the Father’s Love are given life eternal in the grace and power of Our redeeming, sanctifying love and be brought to perfection and fulfilment in eternity in the glorious Presence of the Father, in fellowship with all made perfect in and through Our Love.

‘How splendid the Cross of Christ! It brings life, not death, light, not darkness; Paradise, not loss. It is the wood on which the Lord, like a great warrior, was wounded in hands and feet and side, but healed thereby our wounds’. (Theodore of Studios (759-826).