12-Jan-25 (Luke 3:15-17, 21-22)

In our gospel story for today people were asking John if he was the Messiah, the one who God would send to do amazing things and show God's love and power to people. John said he wasn't the Messiah. He was just the one who would help people get ready for the Messiah to come.
John's a lot like us in that way. We're NOT the Messiah. That's not our job. What we can do, though, is to help people to see the Messiah and help them to be ready for what God would like them to do. We can do that by sharing God's love with them and teaching them about Jesus, our Messiah.
Let's pray about that.

Prayer

God, we thank you for Jesus, who came to help us to know you and to do what you want us to do. Help us to share your love that we see in Jesus with others so that they can know you too.
We pray in Jesus' name. AMEN