Changed By God To Make A Difference For God

Today is Laetare Sunday, meaning we are to rejoice. But rejoice in what? We look around and see that there is something fundamentally wrong with this world and our lives. We wonder where God is in it all and if God is ever going to do anything to right all the wrongs that we know to exist. So again, what is there about which to rejoice? The NT is quite clear in its answer. We are to rejoice in the power of God demonstrated in the death and resurrection of Jesus to break the power of sin, evil, and death in our world and lives. Check out how Fr. Maney develops this idea and rejoice in the Good News of Jesus Christ that follows. Lectionary texts for today are 1 Samuel 16.1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5.8-14; John 9.1-41.