Summary: 4th Sunday of Lent – A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast<br> As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For at least the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord.<br> Say slowly from your heart “Jesus, I Trust In You…You Take Over”<br> Become aware that He is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within in your heart…<br> From the Holy Gospel of St. John 3:14-21<br> Jesus said to Nicodemus:<br> ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up<br> as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,<br> so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.<br> Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,<br> so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost<br> but may have eternal life.<br> For God sent his Son into the world<br> not to condemn the world,<br> but so that through him the world might be saved.<br> No one who believes in him will be condemned;<br> but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already,<br> because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.<br> On these grounds is sentence pronounced:<br> that though the light has come into the world<br> men have shown they prefer darkness to the light<br> because their deeds were evil.<br> And indeed, everybody who does wrong<br> hates the light and avoids it,<br> for fear his actions should be exposed;<br> but the man who lives by the truth comes out into the light,<br> so that it may be plainly seen that what he does is done in God.’<br> What word made this passage come alive for you?<br> <br> What did you sense the Lord saying to you?<br> Once more give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you:<br> Jesus said to Nicodemus:<br> ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up<br> as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,<br> so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.<br> Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,<br> so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost<br> but may have eternal life.<br> For God sent his Son into the world<br> not to condemn the world,<br> but so that through him the world might be saved.<br> No one who believes in him will be condemned;<br> but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already,<br> because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.<br> On these grounds is sentence pronounced:<br> that though the light has come into the world<br> men have shown they prefer darkness to the light<br> because their deeds were evil.<br> And indeed, everybody who does wrong<br> hates the light and avoids it,<br> for fear his actions should be exposed;<br> but the man who lives by the truth comes out into the light,<br> so that it may be plainly seen that what he does is done in God.’<br> What did your heart feel as you listened?<br> What did you sense the Lord saying to you?<br> Once more, through Him, with Him and in Him listen to the Word:<br> Jesus said to Nicodemus:<br> ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up<br> as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,<br> so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.<br> Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,<br> so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost<br> but may have eternal life.<br> For God sent his Son into the world<br> not to condemn the world,<br> but so that through him the world might be saved.<br> No one who believes in him will be condemned;<br> but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already,<br> because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.<br> On these grounds is sentence pronounced:<br> that though the light has come into the world<br> men have shown they prefer darkness to the light<br> because their deeds were evil.<br> And indeed, everybody who does wrong<br> hates the light and avoids it,<br>
