Journey to the Cross 
Pause
Beloved,
Be yourself.
Be present here.
Be open to possibilities.
Be attentive to the Spirit.
Be renewed by God’s amazing grace.
Be encouraged for the unfolding journey ahead.
Listen
No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Human One. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so must the Human One be lifted up so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life. God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life. God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:13-17
Think
Yesterday’s devotion began with “You can’t know what you don’t know, until you know it…” I serve as the Presbyterian campus minister for UKirk at Michigan State. The night of February 13 is one we will never forget. A mass shooting rocked our campus, and we lost three of God’s beloved: Arielle Anderson, Brian Fraser and Alexandria Verner. Five others were seriously injured. So much has changed for our community. The rut of routine referenced in Monday’s devotional has gone out the window. Oceans of tears continue to flow, and we are all processing. Jesus weeps with us. There are significant needs to be tended to and heaping helpings of grace to extend to each other as we gently begin to move through grief toward healing. Our hearts are broken.
We live in a broken world. That won’t change. Neither will God’s love for us. I don’t believe for one second that God wanted the heinous act that happened here to happen. I do believe that God loves our broken world. God loves each and every one of us and meets us in our brokenness. For God so loved the world, that God withheld nothing. Not even Jesus Christ.
God’s love is for you. God’s love is for me. God’s love is for our broken, messy, and beautiful world. God’s love is for eternity.
Neil Myer
Pray
God, thank you for loving the world and everyone in it.
Thank you for loving me.
Meet me in my brokenness and stay with me. Now and forever.
Amen.
Go
Go.
Go gently.
Go in peace.
Go follow the Spirit.
Go, prepared to begin again.
Go, knowing Christ goes with you.
Go in the embrace of God’s grace.
