Jesus reminds Nicodemus this morning that the Son of Man must be lifted up. For in that hour as the Son abandons himself to the Father’s will upon the cross, Death’s stranglehold will be destroyed. Anguish will become exaltation; the cross a gateway, the new ark, our only hope.
We
glory in the cross of Christ Jesus our Lord, for by his cross Christ Jesus has
trampled down Death by death. What would it be like to really believe that confusion
is grace, that through our sins, and failures, what we have done or failed to
do and deeply regret, we can find Mercy waiting for us?
