Revd Sara’s Reflection Sunday 28/7/24
Bible Reading: John 6:1-21
Today’s gospel reading from John 6 offers us a counterpoint to a leadership in which power without love is displayed. The only example of true Godliness in human form is in Jesus, and John 6 gives us the perfect example of love and power balanced together in the feeding of the 5,000. So much has been said about this passage of the Gospel, but today, let us look at three pointers that we might take from Jesus’ actions about what love and power intermingled look like in practice.
Jesus worried about other’s needs and not just his own. Jesus raised up the smallest among them with a teeny tiny offering and magnified this little boy’s gifts. Jesus included everyone. Everyone received all the food they needed. Could we ask our newly elected Government to govern by these three principles? How radically different would our politics and our nation be if those in power worried about other’s needs, raised up the least amongst us, and included everyone, what about us? Know that today; you are loved, and there is a great power in that. How can you live that principle for others to experience and understand too? May you be blessed with the strength and wisdom to use your power in the way that Jesus did; to worry about others’ needs, to raise up the least amongst us, and to include everyone in the love of God; to grasp just how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.
Questions for reflection: 1) Do you think our nation would look different if our politicians exercised power rooted in love, how? 2) How do you think we’d all live differently if we had the power to grasp the magnitude of the love of God?
Let love be shared amongst us as our guiding and leading principle
love and prayers Revd Sara
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