Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.”
NL Daily Devotion for Saturday, July 27, 2024
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Words of hope, to be sure. Life isn’t easy. It’s just not. Whether the Romans are arresting your friends and feeding them to lions in the Colosseum or you just lost a loved one to a terminal illness it can be easy to doubt the goodness of God. How can the good news of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection be true if so many things still, quite frankly, suck? How can we navigate the tension between the “already” of Jesus’ resurrection and the “not yet” of a renewed, whole, and just creation in God’s reign?
We do it together. We lean into community. We speak words of hope to one another. We walk in solidarity. We hold each other in prayer. We celebrate all the little miracles we experience each day. We invite God into everything we say and do and know that God answers the invitation with joy. We cry with each other. We rejoice with each other. We participate fully in the Body of Christ. And through this communal interdependence, we remind each other that we have eternal life now and always.
How can I speak words of hope to someone today?
