Embracing Light, Gratitude, and Service in Faith
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We are so glad that all of you are here, that we might worship our Lord and our Savior, that we might come into this space and our hearts would just open up and God would fill us with his Holy Spirit. So if there was a need, did you have a need at all in this last week to connect in with God? Was there a moment in this past week that you just needed to connect in with the God who loves you so very much? [00:11:30] (34 seconds)
We gather that. We would experience that together on Sunday mornings. And just a reminder, we can experience that Holy Spirit every single day of the week when we pause, when we open our hearts and we allow that Holy Spirit to fill us. And when that happens, we can trust that we get to win with Jesus. We like to be winners, don't we? I mean. Who wants to be a loser? [00:12:53] (35 seconds)
We get to have a little fun as we do this. We get to have a little fun as we do it, but as we're having fun, what we get to know is we are serving our mission field. We are loving our neighbor as ourself, and we are helping to fulfill, as Jesus said to us, whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me. And so this is one small way that we get to come alongside. [00:27:00] (32 seconds)
God, as we come into this space and we know that we hold all of these emotions of sadness of loss of grief we also know that we hold the feelings of gratitude and joy and blessings of laughter god we know that we hold all of these moments all of these emotions all in the same breath and so god would you be with us that as we walk these days that you would allow us to be your light in a world that sometimes feels extra dark. [00:35:02] (45 seconds)
The Gospel of John is written so that we are always being guided back to connect with that light for our souls. And here over the last few weeks we've been journeying through the Gospel of John. John tells us that Jesus is the light of the world. That Jesus was there. In the very beginning. That even if the darkness tries it will never be able to overcome the light. The darkness will never overcome the light of the world. [00:41:40] (44 seconds)
Our passage begins with Jesus' purposeful decision to go to Galilee. He finds Philip and with a simple, follow me, he invites him into the light to join Jesus on this amazing journey of faith. And Philip's acceptance, it is immediate, it is wholehearted. Philip is all in. And then Philip goes to his very best friend, Nathaniel. And that is the heart of today's scripture lesson. [00:43:52] (32 seconds)
Nathaniel's doubt is a mirror reflection of our own biases in the shadows of the world. And it's a mirror reflection of our own biases in the shadows of the shadows that can cloud our vision. We have, all of us hold prejudices. We have prejudgments about other things and people. And, you know, you don't have to live in Indiana all that long before you are very much aware of the rivalry war between IU and Purdue. [00:46:27] (35 seconds)
When we stay in our prejudice, we are not only dimming, the light of Jesus, we are living in direct contrast to how Jesus lived and how Jesus taught us to live as his disciples. We all have our preconceived ideas, but here's what we need to know. Every single human being is God's child. We are all God's children, and that makes us sacred. And holy, and loved. [00:48:03] (40 seconds)
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We gather that. We would experience that together on Sunday mornings. And just a reminder, we can experience that Holy Spirit every single day of the week when we pause, when we open our hearts and we allow that Holy Spirit to fill us. And when that happens, we can trust that we get to win with Jesus. We like to be winners, don't we? I mean. Who wants to be a loser? [00:12:53] (35 seconds)
We get to have a little fun as we do this. We get to have a little fun as we do it, but as we're having fun, what we get to know is we are serving our mission field. We are loving our neighbor as ourself, and we are helping to fulfill, as Jesus said to us, whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me. And so this is one small way that we get to come alongside. [00:27:00] (32 seconds)
God, as we come into this space and we know that we hold all of these emotions of sadness of loss of grief we also know that we hold the feelings of gratitude and joy and blessings of laughter god we know that we hold all of these moments all of these emotions all in the same breath and so god would you be with us that as we walk these days that you would allow us to be your light in a world that sometimes feels extra dark. [00:35:02] (45 seconds)
The Gospel of John is written so that we are always being guided back to connect with that light for our souls. And here over the last few weeks we've been journeying through the Gospel of John. John tells us that Jesus is the light of the world. That Jesus was there. In the very beginning. That even if the darkness tries it will never be able to overcome the light. The darkness will never overcome the light of the world. [00:41:40] (44 seconds)
Our passage begins with Jesus' purposeful decision to go to Galilee. He finds Philip and with a simple, follow me, he invites him into the light to join Jesus on this amazing journey of faith. And Philip's acceptance, it is immediate, it is wholehearted. Philip is all in. And then Philip goes to his very best friend, Nathaniel. And that is the heart of today's scripture lesson. [00:43:52] (32 seconds)
Nathaniel's doubt is a mirror reflection of our own biases in the shadows of the world. And it's a mirror reflection of our own biases in the shadows of the shadows that can cloud our vision. We have, all of us hold prejudices. We have prejudgments about other things and people. And, you know, you don't have to live in Indiana all that long before you are very much aware of the rivalry war between IU and Purdue. [00:46:27] (35 seconds)
When we stay in our prejudice, we are not only dimming, the light of Jesus, we are living in direct contrast to how Jesus lived and how Jesus taught us to live as his disciples. We all have our preconceived ideas, but here's what we need to know. Every single human being is God's child. We are all God's children, and that makes us sacred. And holy, and loved. [00:48:03] (40 seconds)
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