Scripture & Reflection: Sunday 1st March & for the week ahead:

Scripture & Reflection: Sunday 1st March and for the week ahead:
  
Scripture:  

'Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews came to Jesus by night and said to him, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.’'  (John 3.1-2)

Reflection

Jesus was a threat to the religious leaders and it took a brave man to follow up his hunch that God was in Jesus – even if it did mean approaching under cover of darkness. Jesus responded by talking about being born of the Spirit. ‘Spirit’ is, at root, about breath, the breath of life; physically, we need fresh, not polluted, air; spiritually, we need inspiration from a holy source. How arrogant it would have been of Jesus to offer us light and hope and fresh inner life, were it not possible to see, like Nicodemus, and experience his gift in operation.

David Harmsworth