Growing up my Lord, I struggled to see how one man dying a morbid and cruel death on a cross would have any effect on the lives of people, let alone me.
Such is our faith my sweet Jesus that entering into a relationship with You is the key to opening the door to the depths of this great and wonderful mystery. I am lost in the love of that adventure of discovering just how much You love us. You who left the 99 in heaven to come down in search of the one. In darkness You are the light that came searching for me. When no sacrifice of man could atone for the grievous sin against You; You sacrificed Yourself that we may be saved. You conquered death so that we may live.
I know longer gaze upon You hung on the cross in morbid fear, but with great love and reverence. An everlasting memory of just how much You loved me first and always. Amen
(Feast of The Exaltation Of The Cross)
GOSPEL
John 3:13–17
Jesus said to Nicodemus:
“No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
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