Saturday, March 18

“Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
(John 10: 37-38)

John’s gospel, (often called the “spiritual gospel”) is quite different from the three earlier synoptic gospels, being written in beautifully poetic and symbolic language. Its message was/is to encourage readers to believe Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God.

What could this passage from John be saying to us today?

Part of what I hear in this passage is “Hey, open your eyes. Look around you at – the intricacy of nature, the beauty of a sunset, the change of the seasons and the accompanying change in flora and fauna, “the vastness of interstellar space, this fragile earth our island home” - see the works of the Father even if you don’t believe Jesus. As for the second part of this passage, if as we have learned we are all united, all children of God, then surely, we are in God and God is in us.

Mary Lou Beckett

HYMN OPEN MY EYES

Open my eyes, that I may see 

Glimpses of truth Thou hast for me; 

Place in my hands the wonderful key 

That shall unclasp and set me free.

Refrain

Silently now I wait for Thee, 

Ready my God, Thy will to see, 

Open my eyes, illumine me, 

Spirit divine!

Open my mind, that I may read 

More of Thy love in word and deed; 

What shall I fear while yet Thou dost lead? 

Only for light from Thee I plead.

--Clara H. Scott, pub. 1895