ME

We began our Church's week of prayer last evening.

We're using the chapters of John's gospel set in the Upper Room and this brought us to the very familiar words of John 14.  Or so we thought.

But more than one of us was struck by the simple phrase said by Jesus to his disciples, "You believe in God; believe also in me."  It is so simple and yet so profound.  How easy it is to associate the Christian faith with a great deal of activity or an accumulation of knowledge or family connections or heritage or musical inclinations or local meetings in a community.

It is about Him.  It is about trusting Him.  It is as available on the deathbed as the Sunday school, in the workplace or the clinic on the aircraft in the pulpit.  

You can be a Christian if needs must without almost everything - just not without Him.  The disciples' Passion Week mistakes centred on the catastrophic decision they each made to dispense with Him.  Running away they chose safety instead or in Judas Iscariot's case money.  When they got there - that is, away from Him - they found they had nothing really.  We'll find the same.

Trust in ME.