Cairns Lutheran Parish

We all have deep needs. If we strip away the petty problems and the superficial issues that bring us stress, the big issues in our life... like death, like our relationship with the God who will one day serve as our eternal Judge, like making it through this evil world with our faith still in tact. Where does help like that come from? For the Israelites' in the wilderness it came from a bronze snake on a pole! Even though they were whining endlessly and ungrateful - God, who sent the snakes, also sent the help! He sent help to deeply flawed people. And he did it on account of His burning and holy love. Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit." God looks at us today, not by worldly definitions, but the person He created us to be. And He loves us with a love beyond human reason put into action in sending Jesus to die for us - to be lifted up high on the cross that