At the beautiful memorial service for a lady from our Church today we heard read once again that most familiar of Christian funeral passages, John 14. Including 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 mistake centred on the catastrophic decisions they made to dispense with Him. Running away they chose safety instead, in Judas Iscariot's case money. And when they got there - that is, away from Him - they found they had nothing really.
Trust in ME.
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