Devotion for Wednesday, March 25, The Fourth Week in Lent
John 1:3 | Through him all things were made;
without him nothing was made that has been made.
A journalist asked me an interesting question today: “If you had had this recovery you have had, and if you didn’t have a church community, and if you didn’t believe in Jesus, and no one had prayed for you—do you think you would still feel the same as you do now?” It made me pause.
It makes me think of a time when I asked a good friend, who was dying, if he thought his psychoanalysis had helped him. He said, “How do I know? I didn’t get to live my life without it.”
To the journalist today I found myself saying, “Yes. I think God is active in people’s lives everywhere and always. They would use different words to describe their experience. But they would feel similar feelings. I use words of faith because that’s my language.”
Do you agree?
Do you think God has the whole world in his hands?
PRAYER
Please, please let me remember that I am human,
and nothing human is alien to me.
Let me remember that you opened your arms wide,
on the hardwood of the cross, to welcome me in. Even me.